Bitter Russia Vol 1-2

A rough and touching epic through Chechnya devastated by the war. Mid-90s, a Russian mother tries to survive by selling pirate DVDs in the Moscow subway. She has no news of her son, who is a soldier in operation in Chechnya. One day, she reads her name on a list of prisoners. Volodia is in the hands of the Chechens. At the same time, Bassaiev, the enemy general, announces by press, that he will release his prisoners if their Russian mothers come to fetch them. Without means, listening only to her courage, her whimsical little dog under her arm, she takes the road to this region at war to get her son... Bitter Russia. Scenario: Ducoudray, Aurélien. Drawing: Anlor.