August Eighth

August Eighth Russian . , translit.Avgust. Vosmogo is a 2012 Russian action drama film about the 2008 South Ossetia war. This is the third film on this theme.

Kseniya Svetlana Ivanova, a 23yearold Muscovite pastry chef, is very busy with her new secondchance romantic relationship, while her 7yearold son Artyom Artyom Fadeev, suffering from the pain of his parents separation, hides in a world of fantasy every time he feels like been hurt or lonely. In his childrens theater play inspired fantasies he sees himself as a superhero Kosmoboy, who, together with a giant Kind Robot face and voice of Egor Beroev battles against the terrifying monster robot Mrakovlast Darklord. Everything changes when on August 5th 2008 Kseniya gets a call from her exhusband and Artyoms father Ossetian Zaur Egor Beroev, who serves as a peacekeeper in South Ossetia. He misses Artyom very much and asks her to send the boy to his parents, who live in the village of Sidamonta, right next to the administrative border separating South Ossetia from the rest of Georgia. Zaur assures her that everything is perfectly safe. Kseniya, after some hesitation, agrees, because she wants to take a vacation in Sochi with her new boyfriend, a bank employee, Yegor Aleksandr Oleshko, who cant find understanding with Artyom and Kseniya needs some private time with her new lover. But she agrees under a condition, that Zaur sends her son back immediately as soon as she asks him to.On August 7th, after her sons departure, Kseniya learns from Internet articles that South Ossetia is turning into a conflict zone. She calls Zaur and demands that Artyom is brought back to Russia. Zaur, seeing his parents happy with their somissed grandson, and Artyom obviously enjoying his vacation in the Caucasus, tries to convince Kseniya, that those Internet articles are maybe not true, but she does not want to listen to him. Ksenia, having a bad feeling, comes to Ygor in his bank, but unexpectedly he proves himself to be from very ugly party, when he says to her, that he least wants to be got involved in her family problems and said, the shes like a little, because she should be taught throu

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