Vera STOROZHEVA Вера СТОРОЖЕВА Vera STOROJEVA   Russia, 2006, 97 mn  Colour, fiction

Travelling with pets ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Путешествие с домашними животными    Voyage avec des animaux de compagnie  Puteshestvie s domashnimi zivotnymi

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Plot synopsis

The film tells the story of Natalya, 35, who at the age of 16 was married off under compulsion, directly from the orphanage. In an isolated house in the countryside Natalya lives a hard and solitary life together with her spouse, a brutal and narrow-minded man. After the death of her unloved husband Natalya gains a second life, the real one. The open spaces, the river and the forest participate in the creation of a new Natalya; the same does her encounter with the trucker Sergey. From now on she is in the mood for love…

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Two Decades of Post-Soviet Cinema : Taking Stock of Our Stocktaking, Seth GRAHAM, kinokultura.com, 2008

Vera Storozheva : Traveling with Pets (Puteshestvie s domashnimi zhivotnymi, 2007), Yelena MONASTIREVA-ANSDELL, kinokultura.com, 2008

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Russian Film Festival, Orléans (France), 2010

- Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro (Italy), 2010

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2008

- Sofia International Film Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2008

- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2008

- International Film Festival of India : IFFI, Goa (India), 2008

- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2008

- Trieste Film Festival, Trieste (Italy), 2008

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2008

- San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco (USA), 2008

- Clevelant International Film Festival, Cleveland (USA), 2008

- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2007

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2007

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2007

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2007

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2007

- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2007

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

- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2007

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

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

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

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2007

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2007

- International Zurich Film Festival, Zurich (Switzerland), 2007

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

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2007

- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2007

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