The Garden of Desires

The story

The film is set during the last summer before the Great Patriotic War. Three sisters are coming to stay with their grandmother in the village. They imagine the world as a vast and charming "Garden of desires" and all members of the household are waiting for Asya's birthday. Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief. Guests come to visit but none of them are her parents. She still does not know that her father was declared an enemy of the people, that tomorrow she will not see her mother and that the war is approaching.

Cast & crew

Marianna Velizheva

Marianna VelizhevaAsya

Irina Shustayeva

Irina ShustayevaValeriya

Olga Zarkhina

Olga ZarkhinaTomka

Galina MakarovaGrandmother

Mikhail BrylkinGrandfather

Igor DonskoyInnokenti

Aleksandr FeklistovPavel

Yury PavlovLikho

Lev PrygunovKirill

Pyotr KolbasinIvan

Svetlana TormakhovaAsya's Mother

Kira MuratovaSorceress