Alsu Gaynullina

The elderly writer Rishat, who has achieved recognition, feels an imminent death and increasingly begins to remember his roots and goes to his small homeland and dedicates a new novel to her. The hero's son, Amir, a young successful Kazan film director, does not understand the strict and wayward father, who, in his opinion, "lives in the past", but wants to get at least some approval from him.

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The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vladimir the Red Sun. The story begins in 972 AD, after the death of his father, Grand Prince Svyatoslav, which ignites a power struggle among Vladimir and his brothers. The film emphasizes that Russian princes only succeeded when they maintained good relations with the Bulgars and other steppe nations. It also depicts Vladimir's reflection on his rise to power upon receiving the book "The Ladder" in 1005, ten years after his conversion to Christianity.

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