Haytarma is a 2013 Ukrainian war drama about the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars. In May 1944, as Crimea is being liberated, fighter pilot Amet-Khan Sultan, twice a Hero of the Soviet Union, takes leave in his home village of Alupka after the liberation of Sevastopol. At dawn on 18 May he witnesses the start of the deportation, which includes his own family. Akhtem Seitablaev directed the film and plays the lead; it won the Nika award for best film of the CIS and Baltic countries in 2014.
