Dmitry MESKHIEV
Дмитрий МЕСХИЕВ
Dmitri MESKHIEV
Russia, 2004, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
Our own
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Directed by : Dmitry MESKHIEV (Дмитрий МЕСХИЕВ)
Writing credits : Valentin CHERNYKH (Валентин ЧЕРНЫХ)
 
Cast
Fyodor BONDARCHUK (Федор БОНДАРЧУК)
Sergey GARMASH (Сергей ГАРМАШ)
Konstantin KHABENSKY (Константин ХАБЕНСКИЙ) ...Lifchits
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА)
Yuri OSKIN (Юрий ОСЬКИН)
Aleksandr POLOVTSEV (Александр ПОЛОВЦЕВ)
Bogdan STUPKA (Богдан СТУПКА)
Natalia SURKOVA (Наталья СУРКОВА)
Mikhail YEVLANOV (Михаил ЕВЛАНОВ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey MACHILSKY (Сергей МАЧИЛЬСКИЙ)
Production design : Grigori PUSHKIN (Григорий ПУШКИН)
Music : Svyatoslav KURASHOV (Святослав КУРАШОВ)
Sound : Konstantin ZARIN (Константин ЗАРИН)
Produced by : Viktor GLUKHOV (Виктор ГЛУХОВ), Sergey MELKUMOV (Сергей МЕЛЬКУМОВ), Yelena YATSURA (Елена ЯЦУРА)
Production : Slovo
Film revenue in Russia : 0.120 million dollars
 

Awards :
Best Screenplay Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2005
Best Cinematography Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2005
Best actor Sergey GARMASH , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2005
Audience Award "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2004
First prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best actor Bogdan STUPKA , Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best actor Ostap STUPKA , Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2004
Best film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best Screenplay Valentin CHERNYKH , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best actor Bogdan STUPKA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Natalia SURKOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best Screenplay "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best Cinematography "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best actor Bogdan STUPKA , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004

DVD with subtitles
Editor : kinovista. 2008.
langue : R
Sous-titres : F

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
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Comment sont regardés les films sur la Grande Guerre patriotique dans la Russie actuelle ?, Myriam DÉSERT, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2011
Dmitrii Meskhiev, Our Own, aka Us and Ours [Svoi] (2004), Yelena PROKHOROVA, kinokultura.com, 2005
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2015
- 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
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2006
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2006
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (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
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2004
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2004
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2004