Archive of films Corrections Class / Klass korrektsii
Russia / Germany
2014, 98 min
Section:
East of the West - Competition
Year: 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.
Synopsis
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.
About the director
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.
Contacts
New People Film Company
Brusov Lane, 21474, Moscow
Russia
Tel: +7 903 589 5012, +1 530 204 8627
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, DCP
European premiere
Section: | East of the West - Competition |
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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 |
Guests
Natalia Mokritskaya
Producer
Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Film Director
Uliana Savelyeva
Producer
Michael Kaczmarek
Producer
Markus Böhm
Producer