

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