Yuliya Vysotskaya

After the communist government hikes food prices, the fed-up workers in a small Russian industrial town strike, and a massacre ensues.

Olga is a Russian countess and member of the French Resistance; Jules is a Nazi collaborator assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut is a German SS officer who once fell in love with Olga and meets her again when she is shipped to a concentration camp. Victim, bystander, or monster – director Andrei Konchalovsky collapses these identities, offering a new perspective on the Holocaust.

After the Great War, a veteran opens an art gallery where he encourages a young Adolf Hitler to realize his beliefs in art rather than politics.