AsioFilm

STORK OF HOPE

Feature film – 108 min
Drama

This story is based on real events.

Minsk. The beginning of the war. Brothers Ilya and Sasha lose their parents. The boys are left all alone. The only value they have is a family photograph taken shortly before the war started.

The boys are taken to a German hospital where children are given blood for Wehrmacht soldiers. They are kept in inhuman conditions. The boys look at a family photograph every day, remembering their parents, and decide to split it in half. These scraps they will keep for the rest of their lives.

On the way to the concentration camp, the brothers are separated.
Ilya finds himself in the village family of Vasily and Ganna, almost dying. Ganna takes the boy in from the very first minutes, nurses him and cares for him. Vasily realises that if the Germans find a Jewish child in the house, he and his wife will be shot. Vasily wants to take the boy to the partisans, but Ganna begs her husband to keep the child. Ganna offers to marry Ilya to their recently deceased son. Thus Ilya becomes Stasik. Soon the alien child becomes Vasily and Ganna’s own child.

One day fascists come to their house and want to take the boy, Vasily and Ganna try to save the child, they are killed, but the boy manages to escape and hide in the forest.

Israel. Stanislav Vasilievich goes to meet his brother. They meet like two halves of a torn photograph that they have carried through life.

Alexander Franskevich-Leie

Producer, director

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