Fortune Telling on a Lamb Shoulder(1989)

Fortune Telling on a Lamb Shoulder is a 1950s drama set in a remote Siberian village where exiled Latvians, Kalmyks, and Russians navigate overlapping lives and fractured destinies. Young Kalmyk boy Ligi lives with his grandfather, a respected healer who ventures into the taiga to gather medicinal herbs and tend to villagers. When the grandfather is arrested on fabricated charges of murder and arson, Ligi's world fractures. The film explores themes of injustice, cultural displacement, and resilience against the backdrop of Stalin-era persecution, capturing the fragile bonds between communities forced together by circumstance and state decree.