Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...

　　本片讲述了二战中的一个著名故事。1941年德军集结了最精良部队对莫斯科发动了号称“台风”的强大攻势，目标是在冬季来临前攻下这座城市。苏军“潘菲洛夫步兵师”的28名士兵用仅有1门45毫米反坦克炮、几支反坦克步枪、反坦克手榴弹和燃烧瓶阻挡了这支野心勃勃的侵略之军，以整个连队只幸存5人的巨大代价阻止了德军的进攻，保卫了莫斯科。