Tribute to Jérôme Paillard 2022 / Navodneniye / France, Russia 1993
Petrograd, 1920. Sofia (the mesmeric Isabelle Huppert) has a single goal: to conceive a child with her husband Trofim. She hopes that, by achieving this, she will finally be able to allay her constant fear that her husband will leave her. Time moves on, no child is forthcoming, and the situation is further complicated by the arrival of a young orphan named Ganka, who becomes a member of the household...
Petrograd, 1920. Sofia (the mesmeric Isabelle Huppert) has a single goal: to conceive a child with her husband Trofim. She hopes that, by achieving this, she will finally be able to allay her constant fear that her husband will leave her. Time moves on, no child is forthcoming, and the situation is further complicated by the arrival of a young orphan named Ganka, who becomes a member of the household... The producer of this 1993 adaptation of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s short story is Jérôme Paillard, a unique figure in the film sphere who devoted the last 27 years of his career to the Marché du Film in Cannes. As Executive Director he turned this market into an indispensable part of the film industry worldwide. This year he left this post and it is an honour for KVIFF to organise a tribute to him on the occasion of this significant step.
Anna Kořínek
99 min / Color, DCP
Director Igor Minajev
/ Screenplay Jacques Baynac, Igor Minaiev, Bernard Stora podle novely / based on the short story by Yevgeny Zamyatin
/ Dir. of Photography Vladimir Pankov
/ Music Anatoli Dergachyov
/ Sound Igor Urvantsev
/ Editor Noëlle Boisson, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
/ Art Director Ilya Amursky, Vladimir Murzin
/ Producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Jérôme Paillard
/ Production Erato Films, La Sept Cinéma
/ Coproduction Ima Films, Les Films du Camélia, Mosfilm, Etalon Film, R. Films
/ Cast Isabelle Huppert, Boris Nevzorov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mariya Lipkina
Igor Minaiev (1954, Kharkiv, Ukraine). Selected filmography: The Flood (Navodneniye, 1993), Far from Sunset Boulevard (Daleko ot Sanset Bulvara, 2006), Blue Dress (Blakitna suknya, 2016), The Cacophony of Donbas (Kakofoniya Donbasu, 2018, doc.).
Jérôme Paillard
Producer
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