A joyous, profound, epic love story set amongst sheepherders on the Hungersteppe of Kazakhstan. “It shows such an unfamiliar world, it might as well be Mars… You'll enjoy it, not soon forget it, and you’ll tell your friends about it and try to persuade them to go, but you’ll have about as much luck with them as I’m probably having with you.” - Roger Ebert

The movie will be preceded by a screening of the short animated film Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norstein (1975).

This is the third part of our screening series Eastern Bloc Block, celebrating artists from Ukraine and former Soviet states.