Svetlana Chernikova

A film about memory and love. Fisherman Sergey escapes from his humdrum existence on the empty shores of Lake Onega – where he meets with the ghost of his beloved wife.

A man in the semi-darkness plants a tree, looks for smiling Galina's horses in the fog, strokes a dog, lies on the warm autumn ground, gets black clay from the bottom of the river, eats hot white bread. And all this is permeated with the expectation of great love. The expectation is so quiet that sometimes it seems to Yura himself that he is "like a tree – waiting for nothing... or waiting like a tree waiting in winter."

These lines from a Soviet song can serve as an epigraph to the film "The White Way". Despite the cold and hunger, literally dying at work, the doctors of besieged Leningrad continued to save the lives of soldiers and citizens to the last, to make scientific discoveries on a global scale. This is a conversation about the victory of the human over the animal, vocation over circumstances. Honest eyewitness accounts, unique chronicle shots of hospitals in the besieged city, a dialogue between the past of Leningrad and modern St. Petersburg.

A film about memory and love. Fisherman Sergey escapes from his humdrum existence on the empty shores of Lake Onega – where he meets with the ghost of his beloved wife.

A man in the semi-darkness plants a tree, looks for smiling Galina's horses in the fog, strokes a dog, lies on the warm autumn ground, gets black clay from the bottom of the river, eats hot white bread. And all this is permeated with the expectation of great love. The expectation is so quiet that sometimes it seems to Yura himself that he is "like a tree – waiting for nothing... or waiting like a tree waiting in winter."

These lines from a Soviet song can serve as an epigraph to the film "The White Way". Despite the cold and hunger, literally dying at work, the doctors of besieged Leningrad continued to save the lives of soldiers and citizens to the last, to make scientific discoveries on a global scale. This is a conversation about the victory of the human over the animal, vocation over circumstances. Honest eyewitness accounts, unique chronicle shots of hospitals in the besieged city, a dialogue between the past of Leningrad and modern St. Petersburg.