Beanpole (2019) on Netflix

Plot summary

Iya Sergueeva is a nurse at a Leningrad hospital run by Nikolay Ivanovich, in the years just after the Second World War. She is tall, and people call her Beanpole. Without warning she freezes and cannot move; the fits come from the war. Masha, who served with her, returns from the front in uniform and joins the same hospital. The two women were in an anti-aircraft gun crew; Iya was discharged after a head wound, while Masha stayed in the army. Masha wants a child of her own and believes that a child will heal her. Among the patients is Stepan, a soldier who has come home paralyzed and cannot face his family.