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5 November, Monday, 8 pm, Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, London

 

9 November, Friday, 6 pm, Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, London

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6 November, Tuesday, 8.15 pm, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

 

Film will be presented by director Vasily Sigarev and actress Yana Troyanova. 


 


Russia, 2012, 119 min Drama  

 

Director Vasili Sigarev 

Scriptwriter Vasili Sigarev

Director of photography Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev

Production design Liudmila Diupina

Costume design Viktoria Kalmykova

Music Pavel Dodonov

Sound Vladimir Golovnitsky

Editing Darya Danilova

Starring Olga Lapshina, Yana Troyanova, Alexei Filimonov, Yevgeni Syty, Anna Ukolova, Dmitri Kulichkov 

Producers Roman Borisevich, Alexander Kushaev

Production Film Company KOKTEBEL, with financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Distribution Utopia Pictures

 

Awards Best Director, Best Cinematography Kinotavr

     goEast 2012 - “The Golden Lily” for Best Film

     International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012

 

 

synopsis

 

Life is more than just existence. A person can feel, suffer, love, and live out his destiny, even when this means losing that which is most precious: those he loves. Following the lives of the film’s characters, we watch as Fate takes their loved ones swiftly and brutally, removing any reason to live, even the desire to stay alive; snatching up their entire world. The film’s characters do not surrender: they stand up in defiance, declare war on Fate, struggling to the limits of human endurance — and beyond. They reach their own victories

 

 

Click here for a trailer

 

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