Top Cast
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Vladimir Nedelsky
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Suren Kasabyan Adler
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Eliza Markaryan
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Eduard Markaryan
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Eduard Chakryan
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Artur Tozlyan
Overview
The action takes place in one of the Armenian villages in Abkhazia. For a local boy, life is not very difficult: he loves his mother, loves his uncle, goes to work at a local coal packing warehouse, but one day an event happens.
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