Arseni GONCHUKOV
Арсений ГОНЧУКОВ
Arseni GONTCHOUKOV
Russia, 2014, 93mn 
fiction
The son
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Directed by : Arseni GONCHUKOV (Арсений ГОНЧУКОВ)
Writing credits : Arseni GONCHUKOV (Арсений ГОНЧУКОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksey CHERNYKH (Алексей ЧЕРНЫХ)
Vadim ANDREEV (Вадим АНДРЕЕВ)
Yelena TONUNC (Елена ТОНУНЦ)
Oksana ERDLEY (Оксана ЭРДЛЕЙ)
Ianina KOGUT (Янина КОГУТ)
Olga MALAKHOVA (Ольга МАЛАХОВА)
Lidia OMUTNYKH (Лидия ОМУТНЫХ)
 
Cinematography : Konstantin RASSOLOV (Константин РАССОЛОВ)
Production design : Yekaterina LAPYNINA (Екатерина ЛАПЫНИНА)
Music : Stanislav POLESKO (Станислав ПОЛЕСКО)
Sound : Roman PLATONOV (Роман ПЛАТОНОВ)
Produced by : Vladimir BUZOV (Владимир БУЗОВ), Larisa DIRINA (Лариса ДИРИНА), Arseni GONCHUKOV (Арсений ГОНЧУКОВ), Sofia MADYAROVA (Софья МАДЬЯРОВА)
Production : «Продюсерский центр «Арт-Лидер». Centre de production "Art-Leader"
Film revenue in Russia : 0.004694 million dollars
Spectators : 1 100
Release date in Russia : 20/11/2014
 

Awards :
Best feature film "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2014

Plot synopsis
Andrei lives with his sick mother who suffers from a serious illness, schizophrenia. His relatives are tired of fighting: the father left her a long time ago and has another family, the sister has gone far away and has not given news of her for several years. Only Andrei persists and does not give up: day after day, he takes care of his mother and gathers money and papers to have her treated in Germany. But fate is relentless against our hero. The day before his departure, his mother dies... Andrei's world collapses... He then sets off to talk to his sister, look his father in the eyes, see more clearly within himself...
"The Son" is a fable, a dream. At the base of the film a simple subject on the complex relationships of the son with his parents and, above all, with himself. A film about relationships that lead to a tragic outcome.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Festival of Young Cinema VOICES, Vologda and Cherepovets (Russia), 2015
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2014
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2014