Archive of films Crystal Swan / Khrustal
Belarus / Germany / USA / Russia
2018, 95 min
Section:
East of the West - Competition
Year: 2018
Young Evelina has a law degree, but her dream is to travel to the USA and earn a living as a professional DJ. It’s 1996, however, and the girl is living in post-Soviet Minsk... This energetic debut from Belarusian director Darya Zhuk, pulsating to the rhythm of 90s house, is the opening film of this year’s East of the West competition.
Synopsis
Young Evelina has a law degree, but her dream is to travel to the USA and earn a living as a professional DJ. It’s 1996, however, and the girl is living in post-Soviet Minsk. The country is suffering an economic crisis with high unemployment, and its citizens receive payment in kind. In order to obtain a visa and fulfil her dream, Evelina needs to provide evidence at the embassy that she has a permanent job. But then fortuitous events lead her to a backwater village where her destiny interlocks for a time with a local family planning a wedding... This energetic debut from Belarusian director Darya Zhuk, pulsating to the rhythm of 90s house, is the opening film of this year’s East of the West competition.
Lenka Tyrpáková
About the director

Darya Zhuk. Filmography: Half-Life (2011, short), The Air Inside Her (2011, short), Wax (2013, short), Eat the Tourists (2014, short), What Doesn’t Kill You (2015, short), The Real American (2015, short), Crystal Swan (Khrustal, 2018)
Contacts
Loco Films
8 passage Piver, 75011, Paris
France
Tel: +33 664 209 160
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.loco-films.com
About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | East of the West - Competition |
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Director: | Darya Zhuk |
Screenplay: | Helga Landauer |
Dir. of Photography: | Carolina Costa |
Editor: | Sergey Dmitrenko, Michal Leszczylowski |
Art Director: | Andrey Tolstik |
Producer: | Birgit Gernböck, Olga Goister, Debbie Vandermeulen, Valery Dmitrotchenko |
Production: | Turnstyle TV LLC |
Coproduction: | Demarsh Films Minsk, Unfound Content, Fusion Features, Vice Media |
Cast: | Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yury Borisov, Svetlana Anikey, Ilya Kapanets |
Sales: | Loco Films |
Guests

Darya Zhuk
Film Director

Debbie Vandermeulen
Film Institution Rep.

Alina Nasibullina
Actress

Carolina Costa
Director of Photography

Valeri Dmitrotchenko
Producer

Dmitriy Osmerkin
Investor, Producer

Laurent Danielou
Producer, Sales Agent

Sergey Yakubovsky
Investor, Producer
