Mikhail SEGAL Михаил СЕГАЛ Mikhaïl SEGAL   Russia, 2005, 119 mn  Colour, fiction

Franz + Polina ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Франц + Полина    Franz + Polina  Franz + Polina

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Plot synopsis

1943. In Byelorussia, hundreds of villages are burned to the ground in reprisal against the partisans and as part of the plan to liquidate the Slavic population. An SS detachment, sent to carry out this mission in one village, receives last minute instructions to suspend the operation. Instead of exterminating the locals, the SS become their "pleasant" and obliging guests. Will Franz, a sensitive and somewhat naive young German soldier, have the chance to declare his feelings to pretty young Polina before a new order is received? How much time does he have left ? The young couple will soon be forced to choose between their mutual attraction and a sheer desire to survive.
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Commentaries and bibliography

Mikhail Segal : Franz + Polina (2006), Denise YOUNGBLOOD, kinokultura.com, 2007

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2008

- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2007

- Festival international de programmes audiovisuels (FIPA), Biarritz (France), 2007

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2007

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2007

- International Film and Television Festival, Genova (Switzerland), 2007

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2006

- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2006

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2006

- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2006

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2006

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