East of the West - Competition 2004 / Vremja žatvy / Russia 2004
A soldier who fell in Afghanistan recalls his childhood. His father returned from the war without a leg, and his mother operates a combine harvester to the point of exhaustion. She wins a challenge award, a Red Flag, which the mice find a tasty treat. Fearful of being punished for defacing a symbol, she determines to keep winning the award. Later, relatives will try to figure out what that scrap of red velvet is.
Post-war kolkhoz poverty. Legless, a father returns to his young wife and two boys. He overcomes his degradation in song and exercise, gradually puts away his board with wheels and learns to use prostheses, but he eventually succumbs to drink. The wife feeds the family. As the most gifted combine operator she is given the Red Flag, a challenge award which the mice find a tasty treat. Fearful of being punished for defacing a symbol, there is nothing else the exhausted woman can do but keep winning the award. The narrative is told through the memories of a son killed in Afghanistan. In the present, relatives unknown to him go through his mother’s trunk and find a carefully darned piece of red velvet with a gold fringe...
67 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Marina Razbezhkina
/ Screenplay Marina Razbežkina
/ Dir. of Photography Irina Uralskaja / Irina Uralskaya
/ Music Anton Sjalaev / Anton Sylaev
/ Editor Tanja Najdenovová / Tania Naidenova
/ Producer Natalia Želtuchina / Natalia Zheltukhina
/ Production Risk Film Studio
/ Cast Ludmila Motornaja / Ludmila Motornaya, Vjačeslav Batrakov / Vyacheslav Batrakov, Dima Jakovlev / Dima Yakovlev, Dima Jermakov / Dima Ermakov
/ Contact Risk Film Studio, Intercinema XXI Century
Marina Razbezhkina graduated in humanities from the University of Kazan (1971). Since 1989 she has written and directed documentaries. Her extensive filmography includes: And Love Him in Your Heart (I vozlyubi yego v serdce svoyom, 1989), House (Dom, 1989), Tempest Shadows (Burya mgloyu..., 1990), The End of the Way (Konec puti, 1991), The Man Plays the Trumpet (A chelovek igrayet na trube, 1994), Strange Freedom of Existence (Strannaya svoboda bytiya, 1995), The Heirs of Paradise (Nasledniki raja, 1998), Slavic Dances (Slavianskii tancy, 1999), I Feel It Is Time to Part (Chuvstvuyu, pora proshchatsya, 2000), One Wants to Sing (Khochetsya peť, 2001), The Very Aigi (Tot samyi Aygi, 2001), Life As It Is (Prosto zhizn, 2002), Life Is an Unpaired Boot (Zhizn - sapozhok neparnyi, 2002), Reaping the Harvest (Vremya zhatvy, 2004).
Risk Film Studio
Likhov pereulok 4, bld. 1, 127 051, Moscow
Russia
Phone: +7 095 299 8781
Fax: +7 095 209 4055
E-mail: [email protected]
Intercinema XXI Century
Druzhinnikovskaya Str. 15, 123 242, Moscow
Russia
Phone: +7 499 255 9052, +7 499 255 9082
Fax: +7 499 255 9053
E-mail: [email protected]
Natalia Zheltukhina
Producer
Marina Razbezhkina
Film Director, Film Director
Alexander Zheltukhin
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