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It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among themselves as they seek a brief escape from the predictable rhythms of children and chores. But dramatic change is coming this summer as innocence falters and the desire for change reaches a boiling...

"Katusha is the story of young Ukrainian woman, starting at sixteen years old, and her experience in the deadliest conflict in human history: the 1941-1945 struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. From Barbarossa to Babi Yar, from Stalingrad to Kursk, from the Dnipro to Berlin, follow the foot prints and tanks tracks of this little girl's journey through a time of death, hopelessness, victory, glory ... and even love"--