During the Second World War, the Kiev Film Studios evacuated to Ashgabat, a city that would provide shelter to many Soviet filmmakers. It is here, thousands of kilometers from the front line, that one of the most famous war films in the history of cinema – Rainbow (1944), directed by Mark Donsky, is created.

It was from this tape, as the founder of Italian neo-realism Roberto Rossellini acknowledged, that a new direction in the history of cinema emerged. Japanese filmmakers Akira Kurosawa and Kendzi Mizoguti argued that after watching the movie, Donsky figured out exactly how to shoot the movie and created his own unique style in art. The Rainbow caused a stir in Hollywood, with American critics recognizing it as the best foreign film of 1944.

At the heart of the picture are the memories of the participants of those events. The filming of the film was attended by the children of the workers of the Kiev film studio who were in Ashgabat: Emma Malaya, Alexander Letichevsky, Larisa Kadochnikova, Vadim Alisov, Alexander Donskoy, and the workers of the Ashgabat film studio Maya Kuliyev, Rosa Kuliyev.