Valery TODOROVSKY
Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ
Valeri TODOROVSKI
Russia, 1998, 115mn 
Colour, fiction
Land of the deaf
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Страна глухих

 

 Les Silencieuses

 Strana glukhikh

 
Directed by : Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Yuri KOROTKOV (Юрий КОРОТКОВ), Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА), Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Yaroslav BOIKO (Ярослав БОЙКО)
Chulpan KHAMATOVA (Чулпан ХАМАТОВА) ...Rita
Dina KORZUN (Дина КОРЗУН) ...Yaia
Maksim SUKHANOV (Максим СУХАНОВ) ...Svinia
Sergey YUSHKEVICH (Сергей ЮШКЕВИЧ) ...Nouna
 
Cinematography : Yuri SHAIGARDANOV (Юрий ШАЙГАРДАНОВ)
Production design : Sergey_3 IVANOV (Сергей_3 ИВАНОВ)
Music : Aleksey AIGY (Алексей АЙГИ)
Sound : Gleb KRAVETSKY (Глеб КРАВЕТСКИЙ)
Produced by : Sergey LIVNEV (Сергей ЛИВНЕВ)
Release date in Russia : 26/02/1998
 
Release date in France : 1999-07-20, Site

Awards :
Best film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best music Aleksey AIGY , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Dina KORZUN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Maksim SUKHANOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Screenplay Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 1998
Best actress Dina KORZUN , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1998
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Maksim SUKHANOV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1998
Prix du meilleur premier film au Festival de Seatle, 1998

Plot synopsis
Rita is on the run because her boyfriend can’t pay his mafia gambling debts. Jaja, a deaf nightclub dancer, offers Rita a place to hide. Jaja teaches Rita some survival tips in the hopes that she’ll dump her thug boyfriend. Rita finds herself involved in another kind of underground society – that of the deaf. While Rita adjusts to new rules and customs, Jaja dreams of a utopian land of the deaf, where kindness prevails and all inhabitants are deaf.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Россия, которую мы придумали, Oleg KOVALOV, seance.ru, 1999
Le troisième film de Valéri Todorovski : Les Silencieuses, 1998, Didier PÉRON, Libération, 1999
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2014
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2013
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2013
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2013
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2010
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2003
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2000
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1999-07-20
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 1998
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1998
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1998