Time of a Dancer

The account is set in the months after a war. The place is a region in the Caucasus, near the Black Sea. The fighting ended six months ago. The people who lived there left their houses behind. Newcomers move into the emptied houses. Three men back from the war settle there too. All three count themselves among the winners. But they have forgotten how to live in peace. Their days pass empty and tense. Old habits are not easily given up. The war seems over yet it stands close by. Women, debts and old scores come between them. Andrei Yegorov and Yuri Stepanov take the leads, with Sergey Garmash and Chulpan Khamatova also in the cast, in Vadim Abdrashitov’s Russian film of 1998.