Archive of films Sunless City / Gorod bez solnca

Russia
2005, 101 min

Section: East of the West - Competition
Year: 2005

Today’s St Petersburg. The talented actress-clown Ludmila has fallen prey to drugs, along with her bohemian friends who are completely absorbed in their decadent performances. Her dependency complicates her theatre engagements and, in particular, her relationship with the young engineer Yegor, who tries to steer her away from her dissolute lifestyle.


Synopsis

St Petersburg. A big city beautiful yet repugnant, energetic yet grown tired of the social fissures within it. The pervading existential instability is also projected into the story of the talented actress Ludmila. A drug habit has drawn her towards Alex who wants to make a name for himself as a decadent performer. Ludmila is desperate to get hold of money for drugs. She makes the acquaintance of Yegor, who falls in love with her. The theatre (she is performing in a Daniil Kharms slapstick comedy) means everything to her. She feels that Yegor could provide the strong support she needs, but she is greatly affected by a painful past and also lured by visions of the boundless freedom represented by Alex’s community. Yegor is only gradually able to orient himself in the labyrinth of Ludmila’s existence, yet he is determined to rescue her. But he has no idea about the power of drugs and into what maze of uncertainty and doubt love has led him....

About the director

Sergei Potemkin

Sergei Potemkin (b. 1978) has been working in his native St Petersburg with the makers of the TV programme “House of Film” (“Dom kino”) since 1997. He studied in the meantime at the State University of Film and Television. In the years 1997-99 he spent time studying with Krzysztof Zanussi in Warsaw. After the short video films Othello (1998) and King Lear (1999), he made the short film The Machine Is Here (Mashina prishla, 2001), screened at the IFF in Karlovy Vary. Sunless City (2005) is his feature debut.

Contacts

Kino Plus
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About the film

Color, 35 mm
International premiere

Section: East of the West - Competition
   
Director: Sergei Potemkin
Screenplay: Igor Hertzev, Sergej Poťomkin/Sergei Potemkin
Dir. of Photography: Sergej Jurižditskij/Sergei Yurizditsky
Music: Sergej Šurakov/Sergei Schurakov
Editor: Leda Semjonova/Leda Semyonova
Producer: Vitalij Poťomkin/Vitali Potemkin
Production: Kino Plus
Cast: Julia Mavrina, Maxim Averin, Sergei Bezrukov, Semjon Furman/Semyon Furman, Nikolaj Trofimov/Nikolay Trofimov, Julia Kamanina
Contact: Kino Plus
   
www: www.sunless-city.ru

Guests

Vitali Potemkin

Production Company

Sergei Potemkin

Film Director, Film Director


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