Aleksandr KOTT Александр КОТТ Aleksandr KOTT   Russia / Belarus, 2010, 140 mn  Colour, fiction

Battle for honor. The Brest Fortress ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Брестская крепость    La Bataille de Brest-Litovsk  Brestskaya krepost

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Plot synopsis

The sixty-fifth anniversary of victory in WorldWar 2 is being marked in Russia by at least two grandiose premieres. In the wake of The Exodus by Nikita Mikhalkov in autumn, on November 4, an equally significant war movie blockbuster will be released, The Brest Fortress.Astory inspired by the heroic defense of Brest, a city that in the very first days of the war found itself encircled deep inside the enemy’s rear, but which held out for nine days.“We are showing our heroes at the most dramatic moment in their lives, when they make a choice. They are both cowards who find their strength.Onthe other side, there are those who turned traitor,” says director Aleksandr Kott, who has previously shot TV serials, commercial cinema and prize-winning shorts, shown at festivals in Berlin, Krakow, Dresden, Kottbus and Kiev. The action of the movie captures events with the accuracy of a documentary and is based on an infallible plot device. A fifteen-year-old boy goes looking for a girl, and his search takes him around the labyrinths of the fortress and brings him into contact with all the heroes of its defense. This character is modeled on a real person, whowas one of the few survivors of the siege. The idea behind the movie is encapsulated in a single phrase discovered in one of the dungeons inside the fortress: “I’m dying but I won’t surrender”.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Aleksandr Kott : The Brest Fortress (Brestskaia krepost’, 2010), kinokultura.com, 2010

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Marbella Russian Filmfest, Marbella (Spain), 2013

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

- Monaco Charity Film Festival, Monaco (Principality of Monaco), 2012

- Cycle "Cinema against terrorism", Different cities (Russia), 2012

- Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot", Yerevan (Armenia), 2011

- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2011

- Semaine des films russes au Maroc, Rabat (Morocco), 2011

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

- International Arctic Film Festival "Polar Lights", Murmansk (Russia), 2011

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2011

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

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

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

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

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010

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

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