Tobol

The film is based on actual historical events. It is Russia during the reign of Peter I. It is a time of the empire’s complex formation, bloody feuds, and external enemies’ encroachments. At this time, Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Tsar Peter’s new guard, is sent to Siberia, to a border town of Tobolsk, on the Tsar’s assignment.

Here, Ivan meets his first love and, together with his regiment, finds himself drawn into a conspiracy of the local princes, who are hunting after the Yarkand gold. His fortress is surrounded by the hordes of wild Dzungars, and there is nowhere to expect...