Mikhail PLUTAKHIN
Михаил ПЛУТАХИН
Mikhaïl PLOUTAKHINE
Russia, 2020, 34mn 
documentary
Svyashchennyy talisman
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Священный талисман

 

 Sacred Talisman

 Talisman sacre

 
Directed by : Mikhail PLUTAKHIN (Михаил ПЛУТАХИН)
Produced by : Pyotr VOLKOV (Пётр ВОЛКОВ)
 

Plot synopsis
The Predmet Theater and the Jewish Museum present the play "The Sacred Talisman". Combining theater techniques with cinematographic techniques, the film creates a visual-musical universe of childhood memories. A great war of adults mercilessly invades this world of isolated children.
The film features poems and songs in Yiddish from the repertoire of reciter-melocler Leibu Levin, who traveled through war and Soviet camps. The title of the film refers to the image of his poem of the same name. The sacred talisman is a white goat from an old Jewish lullaby, a symbol of childhood, a reminder of paradise, hope that the war will one day end.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2020