Tonight we’re at Bozar for the première of Beyond The Steppes, a film about a Polish woman deported with her baby to the remote land of USSR in 1940.
Story
Director Vanja d’Alcantara tells the story of a woman’s forced journey to the steppes of Central Asia.
In 1940 Nina, a young Polish woman, is deported with her baby by the Soviet Army to the remote and inhospitable lands of the USSR. She has to work in a Sovkhoz (state-owned farm) guarded by the Russian political police. When her child becomes ill, she sets out on a search of medications with a group of Kazakh nomads.
The film draws the intimate and personal experience of this woman, forced into exile, in her struggle against the extreme conditions of this inhuman land.
Trailer
More info at the official website and IMDB.