S.Ch.: There is an unusual story involving this film: the director, Oleg Ryaskov, came to me through my good friend Oleg Chechik, a sound producer. In the first instance, Ryaskov asked me to orchestrate a cue written by the first film composer Andrei Pisklov. I felt inspired by the sheer scale of the history behind the film and offered to compose something. As a result, more than an hour of music (about 20 orchestral pieces) was composed, and all of them were used in the picture. Moreover, I had to compose on the basis of the script but sometimes the music just came from the heart and the director was cutting some parts to fit the music.