Pyotr TODOROVSKY Петр ТОДОРОВСКИЙ Piotr TODOROVSKI   Russia, 2008, 97 mn  Colour, fiction

Riorita ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Риорита    Riorita  Riorita

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Plot synopsis

War drama.
The end of 1944, the Great Patriotic War. The peasant Pichugov and his three sons from a small Belarus village that has been liberated from German occupation are called up for military service. The men are immersed in an army division that successfully attacks the West. Corporal Bakhatov, a former supervisor of a camp of political prisoners, fights in the same platoon as the family. Exploiting the naivety and ignorance of the four peasants, the corporal conceives an evil game…
Todorovsky’s fifth film about man in the war.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Petr Todorovskii : Riorita (2008), Denise YOUNGBLOOD, kinokultura.com, 2009

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2009

- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2008

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2008

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008

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