Шарнохой - жёлтый пёс

A young man called Sharnokhoi rents a small cabin on the outskirts of UlanUde, a small city in eastern Siberia, with his fiancée Garalma. She ran away from home after her parents forbade her to marry Sharnokhoi. Garalma is pregnant. Suddenly on a way home she sees a strange man in a busy city street through the window of the bus – a horseman wearing the ancient armor of the Huns, riding a black horse and carrying weapons. Garalma feels sick, doctors from the local hospital can’t make an accurate diagnosis of her condition and keep making tests and giving her strong sedative injections every few hours. Sharnokhoi meets another patient of the hospital, an old Buryat man who tries to explain to Sharnokhoi that the doctors cannot help his wife and that if he wants to save her a special shaman ceremony should be performed. Garalma’s father explains to Sharnokhoi, who doesn’t understand anything, what the reasons are for such aggressive behavior. It turns out that Sharnokhoi’s great-grandfather was a NKVD Commissar. In 1935 he dispersed a group of his fellow countrymen who gathered for a shamanic service, destroyed a sacred place and shot down the shaman performing a rite. After that appeared the Horseman on a black horse and everyone in the Sharnokhoi’s family died one by one. So Sharnokhoi is the last of his family. (Moscow International Film Festival)