Reel Women by Sloan Jane;

Author:Sloan, Jane;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Published: 2007-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

RUSSIA [SEE ALSO USSR]

1514. Dom na peske / House Built on Sand

1991 DS

D: Niyole Admomenaite

S: Natalya Chepik, Tatyana Tolstaya

C: Aleksandr Shumovich

A: Yelena Shiffers, Yelena Tkachyova

Leningrad, 1930s. A daughter of a Russian family of professors, which is torn apart by Stalinism and World War II, renews a friendship with a woman from school, who now works in a museum. The friend is aggressive in pointing out the foibles of the men in the family, and she makes herself the butt of jokes. In the family’s emptied townhouse, the two care for each other through the German siege of the city.

Awards: Angers European First Film Festival, Procirep Award, 1993

1515. S dnjom rozhdenya / Happy Birthday

1998 DS

D: Larisa Sadilova

S: Larisa Sadilova

C: Alexander Kazarenskov

P: Gennadi Sidorov

A: Gulya Stolyarova, Irina Proshina

Five women are the last patients in the maternity ward of a decrepit village hospital that is set for tearing down. Documentary-like scenes complement the self-deprecating humor of the women, who are happy to relax during a time of little responsibility. Festival de films, 21st: 27. 1999.

Other titles: Longue vie

Awards: Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, Grand Prix, 1999

1516. Strana gluchich / The Land of the Deaf

1998 S

D: Valery Todorovsky

S: Renata Litvinova, Yuri Korotkov

C: Yuri Shajgardanov

P: Sergei Livnev

A: Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun

A woman flees Moscow just as her boyfriend is going to use her to pay off a gambling debt; there she takes up with a mute, who convinces her prostitution is the only way to freedom. Freedom Film. 1999. Accessed 2005, Mar. 6.

Awards: Russian Guild of Film Critics, Golden Aries, 1998; Seattle International Film Festival, New Director’s Showcase Award, 1998; Nika Awards, Best Actress (Korzun), 1999

1517. Sobstvennaya tien / One’s Own Shadow

2000 DS

D: Olga Narutskaya

S: Olga Narutskaya

C: Dmitri Dolinin

A: Natalia Riazantseva, Marina Cheptounova

A famous writer and a doctor, very close in their youth, unexpectedly meet again after many years apart. The reality of their present—the doctor is separated from her husband and supports a child on her own—brings back their dreams and allows their attachment to once again thrive. Festival de films, 23rd: 30. 2001.

Other titles: Sa propre ombre

Awards: Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, Special Mention, 2001

1518. Babusya / Granny

2002 DS

D: Lidiya Bobrova

S: Lidiya Bobrova

C: Valeri Revich

P: Andrei Zertsalov

A: Anna Ovsyannikova, Nina Shubina

In northern Russia, a grandmother, who has raised her daughter’s children while the parents worked for an airline, is shunned by her son-in-law when the daughter dies. Her niece arrives from Moscow to try to find someone else in the family to take the grandmother in, but like her, they all have other obligations. Finally, she succeeds with the most humble relatives, who have survived a stay in Chechnya at the cost of a damaged daughter and who are joyful to see the kindly old woman.

Awards: Copenhagen International Film Festival, Golden Swan, Special Jury Prize (Ovsyannikova, Shubina), 2003; Cottbus Film Festival, Grand Prize, 2003; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize, 2003

1519. S ljubov’ju, Lilya / With Love, Lilya

2002 DS

D: Larisa Sadilova

S: Larisa Sadilova, Gennadi Sidorov

C: Anatoly Petriga

A: Marina Zubanova, Valentina Berezutskaya

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