Yulia KOLESNIK
Юлия КОЛЕСНИК
Youlia KOLESNIK
Russia, 2020, 98mn 
fiction
Elsa's land
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Земля Эльзы

 

 La Terre d'Elsa

 Zemli Elzy

 
Directed by : Yulia KOLESNIK (Юлия КОЛЕСНИК)
Writing credits : Yulia KOLESNIK (Юлия КОЛЕСНИК)
 
Cast
Irina PECHERNIKOVA (Ирина ПЕЧЕРНИКОВА) ...Elsa
Veniamin SMEKHOV (Вениамин СМЕХОВ) ...Leonid
Anna UKOLOVA (Анна УКОЛОВА)
Sergey EPISHEV (Сергей ЕПИШЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Evgeniy TSVETKOV (Евгений ЦВЕТКОВ)
Production design : Denis BAUER (Денис БАУЭР)
Produced by : Aleksandr KESSEL (Александр КЕССЕЛЬ), Ruslan SOROKIN (Руслан СОРОКИН)
Release date in Russia : 15/09/2020
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Based on the play of the same name by Yaroslava Pulinovich
The two met and fell in love with each other. It would seem that this is a common thing. But everyone around, relatives and friends, declared war on this love. Only because the heroes of this story are over 70 years old.
According to some, the love of a retired geographer Leonid (Veniamine Smekhov) and a woman of German origin Elsa (Irina Pechernikova), who has never left her village, is indecent, inconvenient and, moreover, threatens the material well-being of their children and grandchildren. After all, Elsa and Leonid not only do not hide their love, they are going to get married, sell an apartment and a house and go on a trip!
 

Commentaries
Iuliia Kolesnik: Elsa’s Land (Zemlia El’zy, 2021), Natalija MAJSOVA, Kinokultura, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian films days at Farabi Cinema Foundation, Tehran (Iran), 2022
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2021
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2020
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2020