Réalisation:
Олег ПогодинPhotographie:
Antoine Vivas DenisovActeurs·trices:
Sergey Garmash, Богдан Ступка, Yekaterina Rednikova, Vladimir Epifantsev, Иван Добронравов, Pyotr Zaychenko, Gleb Podgorodinskiy (plus)Résumés(1)
Arriving for a family gathering on a sprawling estate in the middle of the steppe, errant son Viktor is reunited with his large family whom he hasn’t seen for twenty-five years. Although unaware of the fact, Viktor has been followed by a group of men in suits who start harassing those assembled for the gathering. With danger lurking outside, the irascible temper of certain family members becomes the least of their problems. If we try to confront our own history, events might catch up with us too fast. By turns circumspect and poetic, this nevertheless oppressive film draws on elegiac nuances to capture the mixed fortunes of this extended lineage, which has experienced all manner of hardships. It attempts the kind of reconciliation with the past familiar from the work of Otar Iosseliani, yet one cannot deny its sweeping, powerful images as embodied in the Eastern European cinema of Nikita Mikhalkov or Timur Bekmambetov. The director was inspired by a childhood spent in the steppe region along the river Don, and also by Westerns, whose sense of inevitability he projected into his film. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
![Sergey Garmash](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/250/162250884_df3c1e.jpg)
Sergey Garmash
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Gibel imperii (2005) (série)
Doktor Živago (2005) (série)
Ekskursantė (2013)
![Богдан Ступка](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/812/157812483_251a8a.jpg)
Богдан Ступка
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Un oiseau blanc marqué de noir (1970)
Fire and Sword (1999)
Est-Ouest (1999)
![Yekaterina Rednikova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/958/161958542_3eaf4a.jpg)
Yekaterina Rednikova
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Le Voleur et l'enfant (1997)
Podarok Stalinu (2008)
La Ligne de feu (2020)
![Vladimir Epifantsev](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/294/158294302_49c043.jpg)
Vladimir Epifantsev
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Le Capitaine Volkonogov s’est échappé (2021)
Fartovyj (2006)
Antikiller 2: Antiterror (2003)
![Иван Добронравов](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/117/159/117159932_60c331.jpg)
Иван Добронравов
Union soviétique
![Pyotr Zaychenko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/640/158640198_37d977.jpg)
Pyotr Zaychenko
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Sibérie, Monamour (2011)
Zatěrjannyj v Sibiri (1991)
Taxi Blues (1990)
![Gleb Podgorodinskiy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/161/159161958_d27d48.jpg)
Gleb Podgorodinskiy
Union soviétique
![Larisa Malevannaja](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/079/166079897_9602a7.jpg)
Larisa Malevannaja
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Idiot (2003) (série)
Legenda o Tile (1976)
Interděvočka (1989)