Completed - RUSSIAN - Drama - 130 minutes
Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY continues with this fourth feature film a work of great intensity, one of the most remarkable in contemporary Russian cinema. Guilt, mourning, memory, redemption: CONFERENCE stirs up the most profound feelings through a staging of implacable formal beauty.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY Cast : Natalya PAVLENKOVA, Kseniya ZUEVA, Aleksandr SEMCHEV
17 years after the Dubrovka Theatre hostage crisis, one of the major tragedies of the 21st century in Russian history, Natalia returns to Moscow to organise a memorial evening for the families of the victims of the October 2002 attack. Why has she retreated to a monastery for so long? Why does her daughter reject her? What is the purpose of her visit?
Country(ies) : RUSSIA, ESTONIA, UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY
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