Film

Jalma

Jalma [Russian]

• Drama

Civil war in the Caucasus. Ukrainian Nikolai Barabash is wounded in battle. He is saved, cured and loved by a Chechen girl called Dzalma. After the war, Nikolai and Dzhalma return to his native Ukrainian village. Part of the villagers, the elders, hostilely greet the young Muslim woman, this "non-Christian soul".