Stepfather(2019)

Stepfather is a Russian drama set in a Siberian village after World War II. Nastya waits desperately for her husband to return from the front, clinging to hope with each knock at the door. The villagers whisper that grief has unraveled her mind, yet she refuses to abandon faith. Her young son Misha and her father-in-law Vasily Prokhorovich share her vigil, bound by loss and longing. Through one family's struggle to survive uncertainty and separation, the film captures the broader wounds of post-war Russia—the countless families fractured by conflict, the resilience demanded of those left behind, and the quiet devastation of not knowing.