East of the West - Competition 2014 / Klass korrektsii / Russia, Germany 2014
After years spent studying at home, disabled Lena is keen to get back to school. The attitude of the teachers in charge of the special needs class, however, soon fills her with cruel disenchantment. Debut director Ivan I. Tverdovsky avoids embellishment to unfold an entirely credible drama portraying the unequal struggle of the individual in the face of institutional torpor, human prejudice and a society that tries to trip up people who are different.
Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal” class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness isn’t to everyone’s liking and repercussions soon follow. Adopting a documentary perspective, young debut director Ivan I. Tverdovsky avoids embellishment to unfold an entirely credible drama portraying the unequal struggle of the individual in the face of institutional torpor, human prejudice and a society that tries to trip up people who are different.
98 min / Color, DCP
European premiere
Director Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
/ Screenplay Ivan I. Tverdovsky, Dmitry Lanchikhin podle novely / based on the novel by Ekaterina Murashova
/ Dir. of Photography Fedor Struchev
/ Editor Ivan I. Tverdovsky
/ Producer Natalia Mokritskaya, Mila Rozanova, Uliana Savelyeva
/ Production New People Film Company
/ Coproduction Jomami Filmproduktion
/ Cast Maria Poezhaeva, Filipp Avdeev, Nikita Kukushkin, Artem Markaryan, Irina Vilkova
/ Contact New People Film Company
Ivan I. Tverdovsky (b. 1988, Moscow) graduated from Moscow’s Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK, 2011). His documentaries have earned accolades at Russian and international festivals, among them As If Waiting for a Bus (short doc., 2009), Pianism (doc., 2012), and Space Dog (short doc., 2013). He holds the job of curator of short Russian films at the Moscow IFF. Corrections Class, inspired by the novel of the same name by psychologist Ekaterina Murashova, is his feature debut.
New People Film Company
Brusov Lane, 21474, Moscow
Russia
Phone: +7 903 589 5012, +1 530 204 8627
E-mail: [email protected]
Natalia Mokritskaya
Producer
Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Film Director
Uliana Savelyeva
Producer
Michael Kaczmarek
Producer
Markus Böhm
Producer
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