Valery FOKIN
Валерий ФОКИН
Valeri FOKINE
Russia, 2002, 90mn 
Colour, fiction
Metamorphosis
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Превращение

 

 Métamorphose

 Prevrashcheniye

 
Directed by : Valery FOKIN (Валерий ФОКИН)
Writing credits : Valery FOKIN (Валерий ФОКИН), Ivan POPOV (Иван ПОПОВ)
 
Cast
Igor KVASHA (Игорь КВАША) ...Le père de Grégor
Tatyana LAVROVA (Татьяна ЛАВРОВА) ...La mère de Grégor
Avangard LEONTIEV (Авангард ЛЕОНТЬЕВ) ...Le gérant
Yevgeni MIRONOV (Евгений МИРОНОВ) ...Gregor Zamza
Natalia SHVETS (Наталья ШВЕЦ ) ...Gretta
 
Cinematography : Igor KLEBANOV (Игорь КЛЕБАНОВ)
Production design : Leonid SVINTSITSKУ (Леонид СВИНЦИЦКИЙ)
Music : Aleksandr BAKSHI (Александр БАКШИ)
Produced by : Leonid BITS (Леонид БИЦ), Oleg LERNER (Олег ЛЕРНЕР), Igor POGREBINSKY (Игорь ПОГРЕБИНСКИЙ)
 

Plot synopsis
Psychological drama, after Franz Kafka. Gregor Samza wakes one morning after a night of uneasy dreams and finds himself literally and symbolically transformed into a huge, repulsive, and fatally wounded insect. He must now learn to rely upon himself. His family and servants are scared to death and they start behaving cruelly to him. As an insect, Samza is much more humane than his relatives. An absurd character living in an absurd world, finally dying in despair.
Source : www.intercinema.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Osaka European Film Festival, Osaka (Japan), 2008
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2008
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002