Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after seven years as a Russian POW. Vienna is experiencing the multiplicity of political, social and artistic freedom, but also the rise…
<p> Parajanov's diploma film for the VGIK, based on the Moldavian fairy tale by Emilian Bukov.<br/> A young shepherd is given a magical instrument from a giant.</p>
In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected fr…