Russia

Katya and Pasha are a Moscow student couple in their early twenties. They don’t care about politics or authorities. They aren’t really rebellious, they just want to be left alone and have fun.

The First World War was a tragedy that triggered a series of severe tests for the Russian people: revolution, civil war, famine, political repression, the Second World War. And all this impacted on one generation. How did they find the courage and patience to survive all the upheavals of the 20th century? What was their character like? What were they thinking and feeling? The authors of the film A Russian Youth explored exactly these questions.