100 Days Before the Command

A dark, intimate portrait of young soldiers enduring systemic brutality in the Soviet military, finding meaning through bonds of compassion and forbidden connection.

Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other.