Alena SEMENOVA Алена СЕМЕНОВА Alena SEMENOVA Aleksandr SMIRNOV Александр СМИРНОВ Aleksandr SMIRNOV   Russia, 2009, 98 mn  Colour, fiction

The Rowan Waltz / Ashberry Waltz ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Рябиновый вальс    La Valse du sorbier  Ryabinovyy vals

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Plot synopsis

An exciting story about young miners who at the sake of their lives were neutralizing enemy’s mines in woods, roads and fields during the War and after the Victory. The humane ability to experience joy, to suffer, love and hate vividly manifested itself under those tragic conditions.

The flowers of rowan are delicate and fragile and bloom for less than ten days. The same appeared to the lives of the young girls who were sent to clear bombs left after the World War II on the fields of northern Russia. They were young, their lives were in bloom and their hearts were longing for love. Marusya was a promising artist. Polina, a young widow, was learning to live without her beloved. But destiny had its own plans for their lives. It prepared for each girl her own waltz on the battle field. (http://www.siff.com/MovieEnLists/2010/ShowDetail.aspx?dicID=5ED2F232-D293-4DFF-9BE6-275AA9457855&ID=cc798caf-4d38-4544-9775-bfe56b85314d)

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Alena Semenova, Aleksandr Smirnov : The Rowan Waltz (Riabinovyi val's, 2009), Frederick CORNEY, kinokultura.com, 2011

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2012

- Budapest Russian Film Week, Budapest (Hungary), 2011

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Clevelant International Film Festival, Cleveland (USA), 2011

- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2010

- International Film Festival "Love is Folly", Varna (Bulgaria), 2010

- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2010

- Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo (Egypt), 2010

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010

- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010

- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2010

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2010

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

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