Alexander Ermakov

Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.

Silent serious people buy weapons. They are taking him by a caravan of trucks through Moscow. One of them changes into new clothes and leaves the others for his beloved girlfriend, who lives in the capital.

An ordinary family lives in an ordinary Moscow apartment, but no one realizes, even the children, that their mom and dad are the keepers of the Great Book of Destinies of another world. And it had to happen that on New Year's Eve, thieves accidentally got into this apartment.