What is Russian justice and does it exist at all?

Small Yakut village, police station. Athanasius is an ordinary cop, moving from work, which is only distinguished from colleagues that he is the only Russian among them. Meanwhile, terrible news comes: a local schoolgirl in intensive care after a suicide attempt (the same Aita). In the pocket, girls find a dying note with the name “Afonya” written on it. A wretched father, a hayal hunter, whose child is most likely to die, immediately hangs all the dogs on Athanasius. The facts, as it seems to him, is there: more recently, the local kid saw how the cop brought a minor Aita in an official car. Investigator Nikolai, who understands the feelings of Aiaal (at the daughter of the same age), is forced to hide his subordinate into the cell - rumor about this is very fast, and now the villagers, dissatisfied with the fact that they do not want to give the guilty to the lynching, are already going to storm the site.

On March 30, the Aita, the new film by Stepan Burnashev (Black Snow), received two prizes at the Russian movie festival, including a prize for the best film. This is a gloomy drama in half with a detective man about how angry residents of a small village require a lynching over a person, guilty, as it seems to them, in the death of a girl. In the main roles: the Innocent of the Lukovtsev (“I must not sit down by me”), Andrei Fomin (“Amanat”) and Georgy Bessonov (“Our Winter”). Kinocritic Ivan Afanasyev tells why this film is extremely important for Russian cinema and Russia in particular.

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Aita: an uncompromising detective thriller about revenge and justice, shot in Yakutia