Konstantin Spirkin

We are talking about the events of twenty-five years ago. The young Leningrad boys then went to the mythical country of Shambhala, rumored to be lost among the dazzling peaks of Tibet, somewhere between India and China. The guys wanted to see the country they had heard so much about and believed in. Perhaps it was a search for new ideas and priorities, cleansed of the myths of the past decades.

100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?

Influential businessman Vladimir owns enterprises for the development and sale of technologies that allow you to see the hidden. Around him and his young wife Catherine, events unfold that take them into the past. They witness Felissa Kruut's love triangle in the 1920s and 1930s. In the present, Catherine meets the young musician Stepan and her real love life becomes a reflection of the life of Felissa Kruut in the past. Vladimir, unable to observe from the outside and come to terms with his wife's infidelity, is trying to interfere with this relationship.