Dmitry DAVYDOV
Дмитрий ДАВЫДОВ
Dmitri DAVYDOV
Russia (Yakutia), 2016, 84mn 
fiction
Bonfire
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Костер на ветру

 

 Un feu dans le vent

 Kostior na vetru

 
Directed by : Dmitry DAVYDOV (Дмитрий ДАВЫДОВ)
Writing credits : Dmitry DAVYDOV (Дмитрий ДАВЫДОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksey USTINOV (Алексей УСТИНОВ)
Radislav ZAKHAROV (Радислав ЗАХАРОВ)
Nikolay SOLDATOV (Николай СОЛДАТОВ)
Mikhail_2 LAZAREV (Михаил_2 ЛАЗАРЕВ)
 
Release date in Russia : 14/04/2016
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
A young man dies in an accident. Another man responsible for this accident fails to overcome the guilt and kills himself. The latter’s father, who lost a son overnight, tries to recover from the pain. He brings home an orphaned boy from the village. While teaching him and taking care of him, the father finds new purpose in life. The other father, who also lost a son, surrenders to the grief of the loss and spends his days drinking. After witnessing how the father of his son’s murderer is living a new life, he realizes that revenge is the only way to overcoming his pain. Dmitry Davydov is a director from Russia’s far east Yakutia. His debut film Bonfire solemnly depicts the choices made to cope with loss, and the crossroad of life and death wrought as results of these choices. The director delivers this universal subject through restrained lines, the actors’ expressions and the snowfield landscape that seems to hold the weight of guilt and pain. Such directions suggest a bright future of the yet unknown Yakutian cinema. (Jin PARK)
 

Commentaries and bibliography
«Полреспублики кино снимает, остальная половина смотрит»: круглый стол о якутском кинематографе [Table ronde sur le cinéma yakoute], Kinokultura, 2023
Жить, чтобы жить: три с половиной фильма Дмитрия Давыдова [Trois films et demi du réalisateur yakoute Dmitri Davydov], Сергей АНАШКИН, kinoart.ru, 2023
Quatre films de Iakoutie à regarder au plus vite en ligne, Nikolaï KORNATSKI, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Dmitrii Davydov: Bonfire (Koster na vetru, 2016), Gulnara ABIKEYEVA, Kinokultura, 2017
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The Cinema of Sakha (Yakutia), kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2018
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2016

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