Soviet travelogue

In the United States the modern flying saucer era began in the desert of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, but in Russia, the modern flying saucer era began in 1908, as villagers from a sparsely populated area of central Siberia, near the Tunguska River, witnessed a large glowing object streak across the sky and explode in midair with the force of an atomic blast equal to over 40 megatons, completely destroying miles of forest.

At 7:14 am on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history to date reverberated throughout our planet. The force of the explosion was two thousand times that of the Hiroshima bomb. A woodland area the size of Luxembourg was eradicated in the Siberian taiga. This incident is recorded in history books as the Tunguska catastrophe. To this day, internationally renowned scientists of various disciplines argue about the causes of this disastrous explosion. The documentary discusses the latest and most controversial insights of these leading scientists. It identifies the reasons why Tunguska has evolved into a phenomenon and points out the curious results produced by this mythical event in culture and economy.

A professional thief befriends a little girl.

World War 2 - Eastern Front: A new batch of raw, inexperienced female Soviet snipers arrive at the front. To bolster them a commander picks a Tungus medic whose people are known for their hunting skills and marksmanship to lead them in battle. Soon a merciless duel with an elite German sniper develops. The main character is based on the top Soviet sniper SEMYON NOMOKONOV who had 367 kills to his credit.

On the shore of the Podkamennaya Tunguska, in harsh northern conditions, the Kto people live, the keeper of a special way of life, traditions and rituals.

In 1948, two Korean soldiers from a Chinese People’s Liberation Army division flee Changchun during the Kuomintang–Communist civil war. Some 150,000 civilians died in this little-known siege, mostly by starvation due to the military blockade. The Jeju uprising of 1948 gradually seeps into the soldiers’ time and space. Notable for its extreme violence and casualties but long suppressed in official histories, it was a harbinger of the Korean War. Meanwhile, a famished scholar in Changchun returns in his mind to the May Fourth Movement of 1919.