River

The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child. His wife suddenly arrives from the outside world and tragedy ensues within this strange love triangle.

• Aleksei BalabanovScreenplay
• Aleksei BalabanovDirector

• Vasily BorisovKyrgeley
• Anna FlegontovaAnchik
• Tuyara SvinoboevaMergen
• Mikhail SkryabinDzhanga
• Mariya KychkinaByterkhay
• Mariya KanaevaKutuyakhsyt
• Spartak FedotovSalban
• Gennady Turantaevyakut