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Bedouin

Official Selection - Competition 2011 / Beduin / Russia 2011

A Ukrainian woman named Rita heads for Petersburg to become a well-paid surrogate mother for a gay couple because she needs a large sum of money to pay for her daughter’s leukemia treatments. Igor Voloshin, a highly original Russian filmmaker, once again turns in a surprising effort, this time through a combination of melodrama and a realistic look at modern-day Russia.

Bedouin Bedouin

Synopsis

A Ukrainian woman named Rita arrives in Petersburg to become a well-paid surrogate mother for a gay couple because she needs a large sum of money to pay for her daughter’s leukemia treatments. With admirable tenacity, the 30-something widow confronts the numerous complications which fate capriciously places in her path. Igor Voloshin’s latest feature film confirms his reputation as the least predictable filmmaker of his generation. After the postmodern collage of orgiastic images he presented in I Am (screened at last year’s KVIFF), Voloshin here investigates life in Russia via classic melodrama. But beyond merely trying to touch us with the story of a mother fighting to save her daughter’s life, the director is interested in probing the state of mind of a woman caught in the unwelcoming environment of modern-day Russia. Her dogged determination is her only tool for achieving a goal for which she is willing to do anything. In implementing his vision, Voloshin relied on his star, Olga Simonova, whose uncommon performance highlights the originality of a generic scenario as seen through the filter of realism.

About the film

90 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere

Director Igor Voloshin / Screenplay Igor Voloshin / Dir. of Photography Alexey Rodionov / Music Gingger Shankar / Editor Tatyana Kuzmicheva / Producer Alexander Orlov, Igor Voloshin / Production Bulldozerfilms / Cast Olga Simonova, Mikhail Yevlanov, Serafima Migay / Contact Bulldozerfilms

About the director

Igor Voloshin

Igor Voloshin (b. 1974, Sevastopol), a graduate of the Yaroslavl State Theater Institute (1996) and VGIK, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (2000), made the striking shorts Mess (Myesivo, 2000) and Bitch (Suka, 2001 – best short doc at the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival, screened in competition at KVIFF 2002), followed by the award-winning short film Hare Hunting (Okhota na zaytsev, 2003). After the documentaries Lips (Guby, 2005) and Goat (Koza, 2008), he debuted in features with Nirvana (2008), a surreal vision of Petersburg’s drug scene. Then came the made-for-TV movie Olympius Inferno (2009) and another highly stylized film about the drug dependent "empty generation” of the early 1990s entitled I Am (Ja, 2009 – Dmitri Yashonkov took Best Camera at the Kinotavr FF in Sochi).

Contacts

Bulldozerfilms
Butyrsky val 68/70c1, Tanuki, 127055, Moscow
Russia
Phone: +7 926 528 533 3
Fax: +7 495 988 608 8
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Igor Voloshin
Film Director, Production Company

Olga Simonova
Actress, Production Company

Alexander Orlov
Producer

Remigius Sabulis
Actor

Valeriya Lugovaya
Film Crew

Inga Bogomolny
Film Crew

Delphine Mayele
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