Directed by:
Marysia NikitiukScreenplay:
Marysia NikitiukCinematography:
Michal EnglertComposer:
Nikita MoiseevCast:
Anastasiia Pustovit, Sofia Halaimova, Maksym Samchyk, Mariia Svizhynska, Petro Pastuhov, Maryna Koshkina, Igor KoltovskyyPlots(1)
It’s the summer holidays, and forty days have passed since Larysa’s father died. In a fairy-tale sequence, the young woman traverses a swampy landscape where a group of couples surrender to their sexual desires. Larysa’s boyfriend Scar, a handsome criminal, is caught up in a spiral of crime in which he becomes ever more enmeshed as the story evolves. His is a world of post-Soviet prefab concrete buildings, Larysa’s a deceptively idyllic village community somewhere in the Ukraine. Their relationship soon becomes Larysa’s downfall when, all too soon, the family’s objections to it turn violent. Vitka is a little girl who also refuses to toe the line. Rebelling against her grandmother and her rules and regulations, she daydreams her life away in a fantasy land of surreal images. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Anastasiia Pustovit
Ukraine
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Sofia Halaimova
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Maksym Samchyk
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Mariia Svizhynska
Soviet Union
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Petro Pastuhov
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Maryna Koshkina
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Igor Koltovskyy
Soviet Union
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