Redemption / Искупление
5 November, Monday, 6 pm, Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, London
Russia, 2012, 123 min Drama/Historical
Director Alexander Proshkin
Scriptwriter Elga Lyndina, Fridrikh Gorenshtein
Camera Gennadi Kariuk
Music Eduard Artemiev
Production Designer Evgeni Kachanov, Lidia Archakova, Anna Bartuli
Editing Sergei Ivanov
Starring Victoria Romanenko, Rinal Mukhametov, Andrei Panin, Tatyana Yakovenko, Viktor Sukhorukov
Producers Tatiana Yakovenko, Dmitri Pirkulov, Yuri Stolyarov
Awards Nominated for the Grand Prix at the 23rd Kinotavr Film Festival
synopsis
On the eve of the first New Year after the war: the father of 16-year-old Sasha heroically died at the front, and her mother steals goods from the police dining room to feed the family, but is this really important for an ideologically grounded, young komsomol? Finding her mother in the arms of another man, Sasha feels betrayed. She goes to the police and writes a denunciation of her closest relation. Her cold heart knows no love and is unable to forgive. Everything changes with the arrival in her life of a young man, August, who has come to Sasha’s native city with one aim: to bury the bodies of his parents. Redemption is found through loss, and through feeling pity; Sasha learns to forgive and to love.
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