Awards : Prix de la FIPRESCI à Rotterdam, 1990 Prix du Studio Lenfilm de la meilleure réalisation en 1990
Plot synopsis
The main character, whose father is dying a terrible and painful death, passes through all the circles a human is destined to traverse at a tragic time like this: the torture of guilt, the torture of inability to help, and the torture of helpless sympathy. The authors of the picture set the task of achieving a closest possible approach to a deep emotional state, a fictitious personification of this extreme pole of spiritual tension.
The film was awarded the FIPRESSI Prize at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Holland (1990) and the Dutch Cinema Critics’ Prize “For the Vanguard Development in Cinema” at the XX International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Holland (1991).