My Destiny

A long, earnest Soviet life story that unfolds patiently, asking you to sit with a man's memories and the weight of history.

Directed by

Leonid Pchyolkin

Genres

Drama, History, Romance

Starring

Ivan Lapikov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vyacheslav Rastsvetaev

Overview

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, tense and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Memory, identity, guilt, politics

Content

Mild violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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