Yuri ILIENKO
Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО
Youri ILIENKO
USSR / Canada / Sweden / USA, 1990, 96mn 
Colour, fiction
Lebedinoe ozero. Zona
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Лебединое озеро. Зона

 

 Swan Lake: The Zone

 Le Lac des cygnes - la zone

 
Directed by : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО)
Writing credits : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО), Sergey PARAJANOV (Сергей ПАРАДЖАНОВ)
 
Cast
Maya BULGAKOVA (Майя БУЛГАКОВА)
Viktor DEMERTASH (Виктор ДЕМЕРТАШ)
Lyudmila EFIMENKO (Людмила ЕФИМЕНКО)
Philip ILIENKO (Филипп ИЛЬЕНКО)
Viktor SOLOVIEV (Виктор СОЛОВЬЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО)
Production design : Aleksandr DANILENKO (Александр ДАНИЛЕНКО)
Music : Virko BALEY (Вирко БАЛЕЙ)
Sound : Bogdan MIKHNEVICH (Богдан МИХНЕВИЧ)
Companies : Vido Ukraine Inc., Kovza Int. Corp. (Canada)
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
FIPRESCI Prize Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1990

Plot synopsis
Sergei Paradjanov was a filmmaker of incredible sensitivity and had a joy for life. This could not be taken from him even after he was imprisoned by the Soviet government for homosexuality and trafficking in art objects. During his imprisonment, he wrote the story on which this movie is based and which, after his death, was made by Yuri Ilyenko. Unfortunately, the joy was taken from it and the feeling of hope, leaving only the despair and suffering. The film is rife with excessive violence which is right on target if the entire purpose of the story was to show man's gradual insensitivity to pain and suffering. It still leaves out the sense of hope from the original story, however, which will leave Paradjanov fans feeling cheated.
Tana Hobart, www.allmovie.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2017
- Cycle de cinéma ukrainien au MuCEM, Marseille (France), 2014
- Week-end Hommage au cinéma ukrainien, Marseille (France), 2011
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1991
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1990