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Cardio surgeon Sergey Sukhanov, who has performed more than 20000 operations on the open heart during his career, has always believed that the only values in this world are human life and health. He managed to convince the authorities that the Perm region needed its own cardiological industry and by mid-20000s a huge modern Cardiac Center was to have been built. The government allocated substantial funds for the construction of the Center, but its completion deadline was constantly postponed. Tired of fighting with regional officials, Professor Sukhanov sent on to work in the 200-year-old mansion, housing the old clinic. In late 2011, Sukhanov got an unexpected offer from the Kremlin to head Vladimir Putin's election headquarters.
In 1994, on the initiative of Perm rock musician Oleg Novoselov, a charitable collection of rock music artists "Songs for Tani M" was created. Funds from its implementation were aimed at the construction of a children's cancer center in Perm. Tanya M., Tanya Modina, was among the children who were treated for a terrible illness. Then she was 7 years old, children were shot on an amateur camera, and Tanya became a "face from the cover" of the disc. In the anniversary of that charity event, the widow of Oleg Novoselov, Lena decides to find Tanya, who should be 22 today. And he finds ... in a female colony, where she fell for a robbery...
Deep Home Front tells the story of the Kama region during the Great Patriotic War. Far from the front lines, people worked to the limits of their endurance, raised children, mourned loved ones, and believed that their labor was itself another front in the war. The film focuses on everyday life on the home front, where people sacrificed their health and, in some cases, were forced to live in circus arenas and orchestra pits. Teenage girls worked as blasters in the potash mines, laboratory assistants tested a typhus vaccine using methods unimaginable today, and more than 2000 housewives became record-breaking coal miners. These are only a few of the remarkable stories uncovered by the filmmakers. The screenplay is based on extensive research in state archives, departmental and municipal museums, and libraries. The production team also recorded dozens of interviews, while the film incorporates more than one hundred documented eyewitness accounts from the wartime years.
Many years ago, Perm composer and real estate agent Valery Gruner wrote a book titled Uncle Gru's Tales and dreamed of publishing it. The book's illustrator, Ukrainian artist Alexander Shults, hoped it would make him a millionaire. Director Konstantin Shitov began filming this story in 2012 but passed away before completing it. The film was finished by his colleague Semyon Sosnin, who completed the project as director and editor.
