Liubov BORISOVA
Любовь БОРИСОВА
Lioubov BORISSOVA
Russia (Yakutia), 2019, 108mn 
fiction
The Sun above me never sets
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Надо мною солнце не садится

 

 Le Soleil ne se couche jamais au-dessus de ma tête

 Nado mnoyu solntse ne saditsia

 
Directed by : Liubov BORISOVA (Любовь БОРИСОВА)
Writing credits : Dmitry SHADRIN (Дмитрий ШАДРИН)
 
Cast
Stepan PETROV (Степан ПЕТРОВ) ...Baybal
Ivan KONSTANTINOV (Иван КОНСТАНТИНОВ)
Anatoli KIRILLIN (Анатолий КИРИЛЛИН)
Yelena MARKOVA (Елена МАРКОВА)
 
Production : Sakhafilm / Сахафильм
Film revenue in Russia : 0.1778 million dollars
Spectators : 51 457
Release date in Russia : 08/05/2019
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Having quarreled with his father Altan goes to work in the North. He will have to spend a month alone on a deserted island. But soon a neighbor appears. He is old Baibal who has come to the island to spend the last days of his life there. He asks Altan to bury him next to his wife. But the guy finds out that long ago the old man’s daughter went missing. He talks the old man into publishing an entertainment blog to find his daughter and put of the man’s death. Every day Altan does his best to stimulate the old man to live another beautiful day.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
«Полреспублики кино снимает, остальная половина смотрит»: круглый стол о якутском кинематографе [Table ronde sur le cinéma yakoute], Kinokultura, 2023
Новое якутское кино в 12 фильмах [Le nouveau cinéma yakoute en 12 films], Anton DOLIN, Елена СЛАТИНА, Сергей АНАШКИН, Алиса ТАЁЖНАЯ, Анна ЗАКРЕВСКАЯ, Кюнней ФИЛИППОВА, Евгений МАЙЗЕЛЬ, Егор БЕЛИКОВ, Ева ИВАНИЛОВА, Егор КАРПОВ, kinoart.ru, 2022
Liubov’ Borisova : The Sun Above Me Never Sets (Min urduber kyun khahan da kiirbet, Sakha, 2019), Katherine BOWERS, Kinokultura, 2020
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The Cinema of Sakha (Yakutia), kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2022
- International Film Festival of India : IFFI, Goa (India), 2021
- Prague International Film Festival : Febiofest, Prague (Czech Republic), 2020
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2019
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2019
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2019
- Baikal Festival : People and Environment, Irkutsk (Russia), 2019
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2019

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