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Completed - RUSSIAN - Drama - 143 minutes

Log Line

In rural Russia, braving violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, a woman embarks on a blind quest for justice.

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Sergey LOZNITSA
Writer(s) : Sergey LOZNITSA
Cast : Valeriu ANDRIUTA, Sergei KOLESOV, Dmitriy BYKOVSKIY, Vasilina MAKOVCEVA

Producer(s) : Marianne SLOT (SLOT MACHINE)

Synopsis

A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked ‘return to sender’. Shocked and confused, the woman has no choice but to travel to the prison in a remote region of the country in search of an explanation. So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. Braving violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, our protagonist embarks on a blind quest for justice.

Production

Country(ies) : RUSSIA, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, LITHUANIA

BELGIUM IMAGINE FILM DI
BELGIUM SOONER / UNIVER
CZECH REPU FILM EUROPE (CZ
FRANCE Aug 16, 2017 HAUT ET COURT D
GERMANY GRANDFILM GMBH
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
HUNGARY VERTIGO MEDIA L
ICELAND HEIMILI KVIKMYN
LITHUANIA GARSU PASAULIO
NETHERLAND Oct 26, 2017 IMAGINE FILM DI
PORTUGAL ALAMBIQUE
ROMANIA VOODOO FILMS SR
SLOVAKIA FILM EUROPE (SL
SWEDEN Jan 25, 2019 FOLKETS BIO
TAIWAN SWALLOW WINGS F
TURKEY FABULA FILMS


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Festivals and Awards

Festival de Cannes 2017 Competition
Busan IFF 2017 World Cinema
AFI FEST 2017 World Cinema


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