Filming of the novel "Life and Fate" move to the city of Yaroslavl.

The plot of the novel is set in the years 1942-43, which was the main event of the Stalingrad battle. Multilayered novel with lots of lines and characters. Directed by Sergei Vladimirovich Ursulyak decided to focus on the fate of the scientist Victor Shtrum working on the atomic bomb, his family, as well as the relations between the Commissioner Krymov, Evgenyi Novikov Shaposhnikova and Colonel ... And, of course, a large part of the picture it will take Stalingrad epic itself. The protagonist of the picture - the Jew Victor P. Shtrum, talented nuclear physicist. He will make a choice: remain loyal to science and to work for the hated leader or stay true to their convictions and be destroyed morally, and perhaps physically as well as to substitute a blow for his family. Its played by Sergei Makovetsky, other candidates for the role Shtrum Ursulyak not even considered. Much of the material already filmed in Samara, near Ryazan and near St. Petersburg. In Moscow, filmed several episodes associated with the Moscow life of a scientist and his family. Filming will continue in the fall and winter in Yaroslavl. It remains to remove the very battle of Stalingrad. Currently, the site is chosen as - a comfortable special vehicles "Kinodoctor" for the undoubted convenience of actors in the harsh weather.