Dmitriy MESKHIEV Дмитрий МЕСХИЕВ Dmitri MESKHIEV   Russia, 2004, 100 mn  Colour, fiction

Our own ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Свои    Les Nôtres  Svoi

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Plot synopsis

War drama
Love, treason, revenge, - everything mingled itself at a village farm near Pskov in August 1941. The war is raging around, but here, far away from the military operations, the own passions are breaking out. Three Soviet war prisoners who have escaped from the Germans are hiding themselves by the village elder in a shed. One of them, the old man's son, loves the neighbour girl. But the local German policeman loves her equally passionately. By the irony of fate, the foemen by persuasions become also the rivals in love. Clearly, the forces are uneven: one subordinates over the whole community, the other has to hide himself from him. After the policeman gets a refusal which is so painful for masculine ambitions, he decides to use all his authority to eliminate the concurrent and to possess the girl against her will. But it is not that simple: he does not know that his invisible rival is a sniper and one can't outmaneuver him.
"This is one of the best films I have seen recently. Russian cinematographers should be proud of this person." Alan Parker, President of the Jury of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) about director Dmitry Meskhiyev

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Dmitrii Meskhiev, Our Own, aka Us and Ours [Svoi] (2004), Yelena PROKHOROVA, kinokultura.com, 2005

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2012

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2011

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

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

- Monaco Charity Film Festival, Monaco (Principality of Monaco), 2009

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2006

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2006

- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2006

- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2005

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2005

- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2004

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2004

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2004

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2004

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2004

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2004

- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2004

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