根据真实事件改编，讲述了苏联军官Alexander Pechersky的英雄事迹。故事发生在二战末期的索比堡，它作为波兰4大集中营之一，是一个死亡集中营。而Alexander Pechersky却做到了一件不可能的事情：他在三周的时间，组织了一次被囚人员的反抗行动并使得大批囚犯成功逃离。在超过400人的逃跑中，虽然不断有人在途中被击倒或事后被抓捕，但最后依然有约150人成功逃离。

本部战争片是对伟大的卫国战争（1941-1945）胜利七十周年的献礼。它围绕着主人公帕维尔•祖博夫的故事展开，他是一名学校老师，作一个老师是他的人生使命。帕维尔所在的村庄被法西斯占领。他相信着基本的人类价值，比如爱情和家庭。然而，一系列事件导致的变化改变了他对生活的认知，使他回到现实。在战争中，敌人逐步显露出其真面目。帕维尔必须做出不易的选择：是生存下去并适应新政权，还是为他的家人，爱情，国土，理想和信念而战。

A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of he official police.

1976. With a goal of emigrating to America, a Russian married couple divorce and marry their respective Jewish neighbors, but get stranded in Vienna, Austria.