Father's Letters
Directed by Alexey EvstigneevIn 1934, Professor Vangengheim is arrested in Moscow and sent to the Gulag Archipelago of the Solovki Islands. To protect his daughter, little Elya, from the reality of the regime and the Stalinist purges, he decides to let her believe, through his letters, that he has gone on an expedition. But the journey drags on. As the months of captivity go by, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the illusion and preserve the magical world of childhood.
