Boris KHLEBNIKOV Борис ХЛЕБНИКОВ Boris KHLEBNIKOV   Russia, 2008, 118 mn  Colour, fiction

Help Gone Mad ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Сумасшедшая помощь    L'Aide folle  Sumashedshaya pomoshch

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Plot synopsis

Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from a small village in Belarus to find work. An incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from his companions and leaves him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and is about to end up homeless. But suddenly a miracle happens: a strange old man takes the homeless Jenya to his flat and lets him stay with him. Soon Jenya is invited to join a peculiar fight in which the old man is engaged: a fight against the evil that spoils life in Moscow. Jenya willingly participates in the old man’s undertakings, until he meets the old man’s daughter, who reveals to Jenya the horrible truth about her father.
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Commentaries and bibliography

Signs of the Everyday in Post-Soviet Cinema, Liliia NEMCHENKO, kinokultura.com, 2011

Boris Khlebnikov : Help Gone Mad (Sumasshedshaia pomoshch’, 2009), Marcia LANDY, kinokultura.com, 2009

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2010

- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010

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

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010

- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2010

- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2010

- Brussels European Film Festival : FFFB, Brussels (Belgium), 2009

- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2009

- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2009

- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2009

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2009

- Russian Film Festival, Riga (Latvia), 2009

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- International Independent Film Festival IndieLisboa, Lisbon (Portugal), 2009

- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2009

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2009

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2009

- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2009

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