Aleksey FEDORCHENKO
Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО
Alekseï FEDORTCHENKO
Russia, 2012, 85mn 
Colour, fiction
Celestial wives of the Meadow Mari
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Небесные жены луговых мари

 

 Les Epouses célestes du peuple mari

 Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari

 
Directed by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО)
Writing credits : Denis OSOKIN (Денис ОСОКИН)
 
Cast
Yulia AUG (Юлия АУГ)
Yana ESIPOVICH (Яна ЕСИПОВИЧ)
Vasili DOMRACHEV (Василий ДОМРАЧЕВ)
Darya EKAMASOVA (Дарья ЕКАМАСОВА)
Andrey OSIPOV (Андрей ОСИПОВ)
Olga DOBRINA (Ольга ДОБРИНА)
Yana TROYANOVA (Яна ТРОЯНОВА)
Olga DEGTIAREVA (Ольга ДЕГТЯРЕВА)
Aleksandr IVASHKEVICH (Александр ИВАШКЕВИЧ)
 
Cinematography : Shandor BERKESHI (Шандор БЕРКЕШИ)
Production design : Zorikto DORZHIYEV (Зорикто ДОРЖИЕВ), Artiom KHABIBULIN (Артем ХАБИБУЛИН)
Music : Andrey KARASYOV (Андрей КАРАСЕВ)
Produced by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО), Dmitry VORYEV (Дмитрий ВОРОБЬЕВ)
Spectators : 5 000
Release date in Russia : 12/09/2013
 
Awards :
Best Screenplay Denis OSOKIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
Best Cinematography Shandor BERKESHI , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
Best Set Decoration Zorikto DORZHIYEV , Artiom KHABIBULIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
Special Prize Denis OSOKIN , Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2014
FIPRESCI Prize Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2013
Best Cinematography Shandor BERKESHI , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Best Screenplay Denis OSOKIN , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Diploma Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Plot synopsis
23 short stories about women of the Mari people. Each short story has its own story and style. It is an ornamental film, a calendar film that talks about philosophy, mythology, traditions and contemporary life of the Mari people.
 
Commentaries
Небесные жены луговых мари готовятся к выходу, Анастасия БАРАУЛЯ, federalinform.ru, 2012
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2015
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2014
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2014
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
- "White Square" cameramen prize, Moscow (Russia), 2014
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2014
- New Cinema Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2013
- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2013
- Helsinki International Film Festival, Helsinki (Finland), 2013
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2013
- International Documentary Film Festival FID Marseille, Marseille (France), 2013
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2013
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2013
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik (Iceland ), 2013
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2013
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2013
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2013
- International Festival of Young Cinema VOICES, Vologda and Cherepovets (Russia), 2013
- International Film Festival Zerkalo. Tarkovsky's Philosophy, Ivanovo (Russia), 2013
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2013
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 2013
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2013
- Rome Film Festival, Rome (Italy), 2012
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