Achim VON BORRIES Ахим ФОН БОРРИС Achim VON BORRIES   2011, 97 mn  Colour, fiction

4 Days in May ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ 4 дня в мае    4 Jours en mai  4 dnya v mae

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Plot synopsis

The world is holding its breath. Four days before the end of the Second World War in Germany. A Soviet Captain and his patrol have occupied an orphanage by the sea; a German army unit is camped on the beach; a secret love affair blooms against all odds. Everyone is weary of fighting; except for the 13-year-old orphan Peter who wants to prove he's a hero and tries with all his cunning and power to instigate trouble between the opposing troops. Until he has to learn that the real opponent is lurking elsewhere and in this supposed enemy he has found a fatherly friend. This time the boundary lines don't run between friend and foe, this time they only run between good and evil.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Achim von Borries: 4 Days in May (4 dnia v mae/4 Tage im Mai, 2011), Marco DUMANČIĆ, kinokultura.com, 2012

Aleksei GUSKOV: “The society is not ready to speak about itself”, Aleksey GUSKOV, Svitlana AGREST-KOROTKOVA, Interview, day.kiev.ua, 2012

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012

- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2012

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2012

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2011

- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2011

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