Rezo GIGINISHVILY Резо ГИГИНЕЙШВИЛИ Rezo GUIGUINEICHVILI Alissa KHMELNITSKAYA Алиса ХМЕЛЬНИЦКАЯ Alissa KHMELNITSKAIA   Russia, 2011, 73 mn  Colour, fiction

Without Men ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Без мужчин    Sans hommes  Bez muzhchin

Plot synopsis

The passengers of an evening flight have fastened their seat belts and are ready for take-off. But the flight is postponed until the morning. The passengers unfasten their seat belts again and leave the terminal. Drops of slanting rain gleam under a streetlight. In a puddle two female silhouettes are reflected. Two women, casual fellow travellers, embark on a journey into the Moscow night. They change cars and their mood changes; they race along the ring road and the boulevards; they cry and laugh: it seems they can do anything during this strange night, as if they had dropped out of real life. They can do anything: suffer, love, hate. There is only one thing they cannot do: part. One single idea moves them, one passion: its name is MAN.

Commentaries and bibliography

Rezo Gigineishvili, Alisa Khmel'nitskaia: Without Men (Bez muzhchin, 2011), Teodra KELLY TRIMBLE, kinokultura.com, 2012

Selected in the following festivals :

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011

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

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