Svetlana PROSKURINA Светлана ПРОСКУРИНА Svetlana PROSKOURINA   Russia, 2010, 95 mn  Colour, fiction

Truce ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Перемирие    La Trêve  Peremirie

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Plot synopsis

Drama.
This city does not exist on any map; it is mentioned only on the line of a certificate. Egor Matveev, the son of Peter Matveev, goes there in order to find a new life, maybe love, and most importantly – himself.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Svetlana Proskurina : Truce (Peremirie, 2010), Olga SURKOVA, kinokultura.com, 2010

 

Winner of the award for best film at this year's festival of Russian film at Sochi, Truce provides a picaresque account of the life of young Egor (Ivan Dobranravov), who earns his living as a truck driver. He lives in a provincial 'no man's land', where the principal incidents are his friend Quasimodo's operation to reattach the end of his finger (a task carried out by 'the doctor from Moscow') and his uncle's visit to the bank to withdraw money for a car. Egor has to wait outside with a gun in order to protect him from potential robbers. He soon embarks on a journey to a nameless town, where he appears to have been brought up, searching for a bride, and re-encountering childhood friends and acquaintances, most of whom seem to be involved in petty crime. An authentic portrait of life away from the big city, Svetlana Proskurina's film presents her frequently eccentric characters with wit and humanity even in the most disturbing of situations. Dobranravov (who appeared in Zvyagintsev's The Return) gives an attractive and award-winning performance.
Peter Hames, www.bfi.org.uk/lff

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Semaine du cinéma russe à l'Institut Français du Congo, Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo), 2012

- Copenhagen International Film Festival / CPH PIX, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2011

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2011

- Munich International Film Festival, Munich (Germany), 2011

- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2011

- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2011

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011

- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011

- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2011

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2011

- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2010

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

- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2010

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2010

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

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2010

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010

- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2010

- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010

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