Just a couple of weeks before Russia's Victory Day, which is celebrated in the country on May 9, commemorating the Second World War, director Ivan Solovov has presented his new film called “Father”.

This is a story of a front line soldier, a young woman named Masha, who returned home from war expecting a baby, something that Masha's family was not expecting at all. She asked the main character Aleksey Ivanov to pretend to be the baby's father. But Ivanov has his own family and has to decide what family to choose after all, the fictitious one or the real one.

The film is based on a short story “The Return”, written by a late Soviet writer Andrey Platonov. Although he was a Communist, Platonov's books were banned during his lifetime for his sceptical attitude towards Soviet principles, but now the times have changed, and Platonov's stories are now much admired, put on the stage and made into movies.

The story is only five pages long, but director Ivan Solovov managed to make out of it a full length film.

“Every sentence of the story is so voluminous. There could be only two words, but there is a whole life behind them,” he thinks.

The idea of creating the new film was launched by actor Alexey Guskov. First he played “The Father” on a theatre stage and now together with director Ivan Solovov has produced a screen version of the story.

“The idea and the meaning of being talented is to get the result avoiding any major losses. It did not happen in my case though. Actually I would like to change some episodes in the film,” actor and  producer Aleksey Guskov confessed.