Lidia BOBROVA Лидия БОБРОВА Lidia BOBROVA   Russia / France, 2003, 97 mn  Colour, fiction

Granny / Babusia ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Бабуся    Baboussia  Babusia

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Plot synopsis

The film tells about the life of a granny, the ‘babusia’, who raised her children, her grandchildren and the neighbour’s kids in a small Russian village. Now all of them have grown up, have made their careers, and have secured a comfortable life in the city. In many respects the achievement of such a lifestyle was assisted by the money the children received after the sale of the Babusia’s country house.
It would seem all is well, except that Babusia has nowhere to go. None of the children seems to dispose fully of the property they ‘own’ or is really free to do what they want: one depends on the husband, the other on the mistress, the third lives in Moscow without a residence permit. Babusia is taken from one house to the other, from one apartment to the next, handed around like an unnecessary, shabby object. Despite this, Babusia finds the strength to perform a miracle on her dumb grand-daughter, to whom she returns her ability to speak. The heroine herself is almost deprived words, which underlines her similarity to the icon of Mary the Virgin. The casting of a non-professional actress for the role it quite justified: she is an old woman with expressive, spiritual features.
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Commentaries and bibliography

Lidiia Bobrova: Granny (Babusia) (2003), Birgit BEUMERS, kinokultura.com, 2003

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Trois Jours de cinéma russe à La Ciotat, La Ciotat (France), 2013

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

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

- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2009

- Russian films in the restaurant Le Lieu-dit, Paris (France), 2009

- Days of Russian cinema in Valence, Valencia (France), 2006

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2005

- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2004-02-04

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2004

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2004

- Paris International Film Festival, Paris (France), 2003

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2003

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2003

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2003

- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2003

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