Dunia

It's for many years now that 90-year-old Dunia, the main character, has been living in Moscow with a Jewish family. Sometime, long ago she moved to Moscow from her native village in the Lipetsk region. It was hunger that made her leave the village and also her private life was not very fortunate as her boyfriend had married another girl. She never married and dedicated her life to taking care of other people's children. In Moscow, she became nanny to Lina and Mark, a brother and sister of Jewish parents. Jew or Russian - it made no difference to her. And now, Lina and Mark have grown up and recall their nanny with gratitude and affection. Lina married a musician, Valentin, and for ten years now, has been living with him in Holland. Lina and Valentin often came to Russia, not only for musical tours and visiting their family, but also to visit Dunia whom they love very much. A few years later Dunia visited Lina in Holland and in the film recalls this country with delight. A Russian woman living with a Jewish family. For a Western viewer, perhaps, it is not clear how painful this subject is - Russians and Jews. The most important issue for us was the everyday routine life of Russian Dunia and her Jewish masters, the basis of which is their mutual affection for each other. And it is worth noting that such affection does not happen often even between those who are bound by blood relationships. Dunia suddenly died during the shooting, and this film is a tribute to her, a modest, inconspicuous woman, so necessary to all of us