98 minutes
1/1/1987
The film is set during the last summer before the Great Patriotic War. Three sisters are coming to stay with their grandmother in the village. They imagine the world as a vast and charming "Garden of desires" and all members of the household are waiting for Asya's birthday. Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief. Guests come to visit but none of them are her parents. She still does not know that her father was declared an enemy of the people, that tomorrow she will not see her mother and that the war is approaching.
Marianna Velizheva
as Asya
Irina Shustayeva
as Valeriya
Olga Zarkhina
as Tomka
Galina Makarova
as Grandmother
Mikhail Brylkin
as Grandfather
Igor Donskoy
as Innokenti
Aleksandr Feklistov
as Pavel
Yury Pavlov
as Likho
Lev Prygunov
as Kirill
Pyotr Kolbasin
as Ivan
Svetlana Tormakhova
as Asya's Mother
Kira Muratova
as Sorceress