Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes

Special edition for the premiere on the channel «Russia».
In the winter of 1930, the Tatar peasant Zuleikha's husband is murdered, and she is dispossessed and sent along a hard labor route to Siberia. Thirty exiles find themselves abandoned in the deep taiga without food, shelter, or warm clothing. Illiterate peasants and Leningrad intellectuals, "declassed elements" and criminals, Muslims and Christians, pagans and atheists, Russians, Tatars, Germans, Chuvash – all of them defend their right to life against harsh nature and a merciless state.
Zuleikha finds the strength within herself to go through all the trials, the main one being the trial of Love and Forgiveness. To survive, one must love – even if it is love for one's worst enemy. To survive, one must forgive: oneself, others, one’s terrible fate, and one’s cruel homeland. Even history itself, in which, as in every human life, there is so little justice...