Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes

Overview

The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer. A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina.

Cast

Chulpan Khamatova

Zuleikha Valieva

Yulia Peresild

Anastasia Kotelnikov

Roman Madyanov

Zinovy ​​Smith

Sergey Makovetskiy

Wolf Karlovich Leibe

Aleksandr Bashirov

Vasily Gorelov

Yevgeniy Morozov

Ivan Ignatov