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The Alienated

Proxima Competition 2024 / Fără suflet / Germany, Moldova, France 2024

The Alienated The Alienated

Synopsis

Varvara, a professor of philosophy, is discussing the concept of God’s death with her students. She is visited by her sister Angelina, an eminent gynaecologist who has been recalled from Moscow and sent to the city of X, where she is to reduce the number of abortions. Not long afterwards a girl comes to see her at the hospital, asking her to perform an abortion, claiming that she is carrying the Antichrist in her womb. After a heated dispute with a student, Varvara ponders the presence of evil in human nature, while Angelina carries out an illegal abortion on the girl and takes the embryo home with her... This mystical film by Anja Kreis is beguiling for its ominous atmosphere and raises uncomfortable questions about human conscience, morality and faith, although it declines to provide definitive answers.

Natalia Kozáková

About the film

95 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Anja Kreis / Screenplay Anja Kreis / Dir. of Photography Eugeniu Dedcov / Sound Dumitru Grețu / Editor Anja Kreis / Producer Anja Kreis / Production FORTIS FEM FILM / Coproduction Pascaru Production, MIDRALGAR / Cast Dana Ciobanu, Maria Chuprinskaya, Epchil Akchalov, Maria Stepanova, Ira Cazac, Olesea Svecla, Ghennadii Boiarchin, Tatiana Vladimirova, Ion Mocanu / Contact FORTIS FEM FILM

About the director

Anja Kreis

Anja Kreis (1988, Angarsk, Soviet Union). Selected filmography: Scythe Hitting Stone (Nashla kosa na kamen, 2017), The Alienated (Fără suflet, 2024).

Contacts

FORTIS FEM FILM
Rolshover Str. 45, 51105, Cologne
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]

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Anja Kreis
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Dana Ciobanu
Actress

Maria Chupriskaya
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