Marie Renault

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The Solovetsky Monastery, built in the 15th century, is a sacred place, in the history of which holiness and tragedy, unity with God and the terrible test of the special camp merged. This is the place where today everyone is looking for the answer to the main question "who am I?" The protagonist of the film goes there to shoot a documentary, and everything starts to go wrong.

In the autumn of 1941, an SS training camp appeared in the small Polish town of Travniki, organized on the personal initiative of Heinrich Himmler. The cadets of this camp were supposed to be, according to the Reichsfuhrer's idea, Soviet prisoners of war. In the first months after the German attack on the Soviet Union, there were millions of them, exhausted, psychologically crushed, dying of hunger.

Thousands of kilometers of snowy silence, severe frosts and piercing winds, the deceptive fragile beauty of the ice. It’s the Arctic, the end of the world, where, in the words of one of the characters, the human soul means the universe. Perhaps that is why for ages these disturbing expenses have lured the fearless and the romantic. This is where the history of the great country was made – the Northern Sea Route was laid. In this film the past meets the present and the heroes of today – captains and crews of the superpowerful atomic icebreakers – just like their predecessors set off on voyages unaware of what lies ahead for them, what trials await them on their long arctic route…