Marina LUBAKOVA Марина ЛЮБАКОВА Marina LUBAKOVA   Russia, 2007, full length film  Colour, fiction

Cruelty ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Жестокость    La Cruauté  Zhestokost

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Plot synopsis

Psychological drama. Zoya is a secure, but lonely middle-aged woman. Vika is a typical teenager longing for independence. From the roof of her apartment block Vika observes life behind the windows of the house opposite. Her photo-camera captures a love scene between Zoya and her married neighbour. Vika has the ingenious idea of blackmailing the unfaithful husband. With the help of a private detective the latter quickly exposes Vika, but, scared of the publicity, he nevertheless ends his affair with Zoya. Gradually the two women get closer, and Vika persuades her new friend to take revenge on her former lover. The women take to the idea, and their revenge reaches criminal dimensions. Zoya and Vika will never be the same as before.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Marina Liubakova : Cruelty (Zhestokost' , 2007), Olga KLIMOVA, kinokultura.com, 2008

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Prague International Film Festival : Febiofest, Prague (Czech Republic), 2008

- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2008

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2008

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2008

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2008

- Festival Russian cinema in Israel, Tel Aviv (Israel), 2007

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2007

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2007

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Photos and videos

 

Photos : www.lunginstudio.ru/prj/2

 

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