Boris Romanov

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.

During perestroika, a Chicago student visiting Moscow inadvertently gets caught up in a perilous game involving a stolen Russian Orthodox icon amidst the USSR's transition to capitalism.