December 1941. Leningrad. A soldier is assigned to guard the city zoo in the midst of World War II. There, among starving workers and dying animals, he forms an unexpected bond with Bella the hippo. As the siege tightens, this fragile connection becomes his only anchor, forcing him to choose between survival and compassion in a world falling apart.

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Cast

Slava Kopeykin

Yulia Peresild

Stasya Miloslavskaya

Viktor Sukhorukov

Ivan Dobronravov

Svetlana Nemolyaeva

Boris Shcherbakov

Vladimir Afanasyev

Polina Ainutdinova

Elisey Chuchilin

Mariya Aronova

Victor Dobronravov