Nikolay DOSTAL Николай ДОСТАЛЬ Nikolaï DOSTAL   Russia, 2009, 97 mn  Colour, fiction

Petia on the Way to Heaven ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Петя по дороге в Царствие Небесное    Petia sur le chemin du Royaume des Cieux  Petya po doroge v Tsarstviye Nebesnoye

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Plot synopsis

Small town Kandalaksha, the year 1953. The town’s fool Petya likes to pretend that he is a real militiaman serving and guarding, furthermore – that he is the real inspector of the traffic police. He has a formal baldric and militiaman’s cap, and in his real holster there is a gun – it makes no odds that it is in fact made out of wood. Nobody wants to talk him out of this harmless encroachment for the power. Even the cars of the chief constructor and the superior engineer stop at «inspector Petya» signal. He was honored with the favour and attention of the first beauty of the town, the wife of the colonel of GB Boguslavskiy, who is the chief of several local reformatory camps. And then came the fatal march of 1953. Stalin died. And a con has just escaped from the local reformatory camp. Together with alarmed soldiers and guards Petya starts out for chasing, because he just couldn’t imagine how an event like this could possibly pass without him…

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Pete on the Way to Heaven, Andrew CHAPMAN, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2010

Nikolai Dostal : Petia on the Way to Heaven (Petia po doroge v tsarstvo nebesnoe, 2009), David GILLESPIE, kinokultura.com, 2010

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2012

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2011

- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010

- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2010

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Art Film Festival, Trencin (Slovakia), 2010

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

- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2010

- International Film Festival Listapad, Minsk (Belarus), 2009

- Helsinki International Film Festival, Helsinki (Finland), 2009

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2009

- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2009

- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2009

- Russian Film Festival, Riga (Latvia), 2009

- Festival of New Russian Films, Vilnius (Lithuania), 2009

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (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

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2009

- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2009

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