Remember Your Name

The film is set in the years of the Second World War. A Russian woman called Zinaida is taken prisoner. She is taken away along with other women. Where they arrive is the Auschwitz camp. The woman has her small son with her. The boy is called Gena. Gena is only learning to walk. He takes his first steps in the snow of the camp. Mother and son stay in the same place for a few years. Then they are put in separate parts of the camp. Zinaida looks for ways to see her son from a distance. Towards the end of the war the Germans begin to clear the camp. In the course of that the two of them are parted for good. Lyudmila Kasatkina and Vladimir Ivashov take the leads, with Ryszarda Hanin also in the cast, in Sergey Kolosov’s Polish and Soviet coproduction of 1974.