Avgust Vosmogo (August Eighth) (with English subtitles)

23-year-old Muscovite pastry chef Kseniya (Svetlana Ivanova) never considered that her life is filled by critical circumstances, though her 7-year-old son Artyom (Artyom Fadeev) is afflicted because divorce of his parents, her boyfriend - bank employee - Yegor (Aleksandr Oleshko) is absorbed by his career, and her mother (Anna Legchilova) constantly interferes with private life of her daughter.

Everything changes when she decides to marry Yegor and fly away on vacation in Sochi with him. At the same time she gets a call from her ex-husband Zaur (Egor Beroev), who serves as the peacemaker in South Ossetia and misses Artyom. He asks that she had sent the boy to his parents, who live in the village Sidamonta, which is located near the border separating South Ossetia from the rest of Georgia. Zaur assures her that it is perfectly safe. As Yegor can not find common language with Artyom, Kseniya, after some hesitation, agrees to let Artyom. It occurs on the eve of August 8, 2008. When Kseniya learns about the beginning of war, she contacts with Artyom and learns that he remained alone. Realizing, that nobody can help her and there is no possibility to forward Artyom back to Russia, she goes to conflict epicenter to salvage her son.

Along the way Kseniya supports mobile communication with her son and that he was not frightened, reminds him of their home game in robots. The viewer is given the opportunity to see how in the 7-year-old boy's eyes the South Ossetian conflict becomes a fiction thriller, in which military technology is transformed into alien monsters, and the mother takes the shape of robot-superhero. Kseniya will go through many dangers but even when she finds her son, she faces a new challenge: how to move beyond the front line and stay alive?

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[ranlaen]

Is there a release date on this film on DVD internationally?

[HHHPPP8]

@ranlaen As I have posted below, "20th Century Fox CIS" (Russian distributor of "20th Century Fox") has officially announced that the film will be released in the international film distribution, so most likely, yes.

[lechatparlant]

I hope this show this movie here in the U.S. it looks like a such a pretty mother son story but yet with a lot of action .

[trentinifontanastam]

Svetlana Ivanova is pretty . but too skinny..

[luckyStrike89ru]

@tektof "Propaganda" film? If you call this propaganda, then you might as well call ALL US war movies propaganda, lol. Seriously? Whats wrong with making a movie about your country's army beating the shit out of the enemy? Besides, like it didnt happen. You people are fucking nuts.

[tektof]

What's with Russian films (especially propaganda films) always having some sort of fantasy or science fiction element?

[ranlaen]

@HHHPPP8 Yeah but I was hoping for a date.

[HHHPPP8]

@19810101PR "20th Century Fox CIS" has announced that the film will be released in the international film distribution.

[19810101PR]

@lechatparlant

For certain, only in the Internet. The american MWB won't pass this video

[BradRapstars]

@trentinifontanastam Yeah I'm sure some putz commenting on YouTube can afford to be that picky. Fucking Internet.