Firecrosser

Firecrosser is a 2011 Ukrainian drama film directed by Mykhailo Illienko. The film was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Plot Little Ivan Dodoka witnesses how grain is taken from peasants in Chernychy Yar. After the collectivization and arrest of the priest, people sought consolation and guidance from his father Orestes, whose grandfather seemed to be a character. Secretly from the authorities, he keeps an icon in a hiding place in the house. As an adult, Ivan joined the Red Army as a pilot. He is instructed to search for the missing pilot who crashed. Dodoka goes in search of nurse Lyubov Karimova and encounters a wolf near the scene of the accident. The nurse calms the wolf with mysterious words. Later, Ivan makes a proposal to Lyubov to marry and she agrees. One day, Ivan gets on guard duty. He is visited by fellow villager Stepan Shulika, who says that his father was arrested for finding a hiding place. Stepan, taking the opportunity, flirts with Love and, when the German-Soviet war begins, begins to select the letters that Love writes to Ivan. Instead, he writes her own, hoping for reciprocity. On one of the flights, Ivan finds his beloved in his native village and they sign. The couple is visited by the fortune-teller Steph, who predicts that Ivan will become the head of the collective farm and have twelve children, but only one son from Lyubov.