Life and Fate

The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Victor Shtrum is a talented nuclear physicist working at one of the country's institutes to create an atomic bomb. At this time, Strum's relatives died in Hitler's camps and dungeons of the NKVD, and persecution began against him. The inventor can only be saved by his scientific brainchild, which Stalin himself became interested in. The state needs such a powerful weapon as the atomic bomb. The scientist has to make a choice: remain faithful to science and work for the “leader of the nation” or abandon his calling and be destroyed.