Sergei Yermolinsky

Romantic drama. In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka. When she discovers he is ill, she watches over him. But at a party, when Alyosha pays too much attention to another girl, Mashenka is forced to realise her love is an illusion.

Dan'ka's (Daniel) and Ksanka's (Oksana) childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes... (imdb)

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.