Archive of films Hare Hunting / Ochota na zajcev

Russia
2003, 23 min

Section: East of the West - Competition
Year: 2003

A mother takes her son to the country to say goodbye to his dead grandmother. The boy still doesn’t understand death’s implications, and so he tries to get his grieving grandfather to go with him into the woods after hares...

Synopsis

Bitter cold. A mother takes her son to the country to say goodbye to his dead grandmother. The boy still doesn’t understand death’s implications, he only notes the unnatural cold of his grandmother’s body. He tries to get his grieving grandfather to go with him into the woods after hares. Grandpa obliges him and they wander around the snowy landscape all day long. A big white hare emerges from the woods near their small fire, and against all regulations, the grandfather kills it with an axe. In shock over the act he has committed he is reduced to tears.

About the director

Igor Voloshin (b. 1974) studied acting at the State Theatre Institute in Yaroslavl (1996) before returning to his native Sevastopol to work at a local theatre. He then studied documentary and television filmmaking at Moscow’s VGIK film school, graduating in 2000. Filmography: Mesivo (2000) and Bitch (Suka, 2002), reflecting the atmosphere of the Chechen War (screened in last year’s documentary competition at Karlovy Vary). The short film Hare Hunting,(2003) is drawn from Kenji Maruyama’s story In the Snow was made at Sverdlovsk Film Studios. 

Contacts

Sverdlovsk Film Studio
50, Pr. Lenina, 62075, Ekaterinburg
Russia
Tel: +7 343 250 1538
Fax: +7 343 250 1538
E-mail: [email protected]

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About the film

Color, 35 mm
World premiere

Section:	East of the West - Competition

Director:	Igor Voloshin
Screenplay:	Alexej Fedorčenko / Alexey Fedorchenko
Dir. of Photography:	Andrej Najdenov / Andrey Naydenov
Music:	Leonid Fjodorov / Leonid Fedorov, Anton Guzev, Sainkho Namtchylack
Editor:	Ljudmila Zalogněvová / Ludmila Zalogneva
Producer:	Alexej Fedorčenko / Alexey Fedorchenko
Production:	Sverdlovsk Film Studio
Cast:	Pjotr Zajčenko / Piotr Zaychenko, Roma Medveděv / Roma Medvedev, Olga Simjonovová / Olga Simonova
Contact:	Sverdlovsk Film Studio

www:	www.hare-hunting.ru

Guests

Igor Voloshin

Film Director, Production Company