Larisa SADILOVA
Лариса САДИЛОВА
Larissa SADILOVA
Russia, 2009, 90mn 
Colour, fiction
Synok
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 Sonny

 Fiston

Other titles : Попутчик (Popuchik)
 
Directed by : Larisa SADILOVA (Лариса САДИЛОВА)
Writing credits : Larisa SADILOVA (Лариса САДИЛОВА)
 
Cast
Oleg BOKHAN (Олег БОХАН) ...Gocha
Oleg FROLENKOV (Олег ФРОЛЕНКОВ) ...Andreï
Yevgeniya SIMONOVA (Евгения СИМОНОВА) ...avocate
Viktor SUKHORUKOV (Виктор СУХОРУКОВ) ...le père
Kseniya SURKOVA (Ксения СУРКОВА) ...Rita
 
Cinematography : Dmitry MISHIN (Дмитрий МИШИН)
Production design : Azamat TURAYEV (Азамат ТУРАЕВ)
Produced by : Rustam AKHADOV (Рустам АХАДОВ)
Companies : Arsi-film
 

Awards :
Guilde of Russian Director Prize International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2009

Plot synopsis
Home / Films 2010 / Sonny SP-2010 In this psychological drama from Russia, a father takes care of his only teenage son with unusual intensity and passion, which results in the son feeling suffocated. Trying to free himself from home, Andrei finds escape among his teenage friends and, above all, with a new girl.
 

commentaries
Sonny (Synok), Larisa Sadilova, 2009, Elise THORSEN, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2010
Larisa Sadilova : Sonny (Synok, 2009), Jasmijn VAN GORP, kinokultura.com, 2010
 
Review by Elise Thorsen, University of Pittsburgh Russian Film Syposium 2010

With her latest film, Larisa Sadilova stays true to her creative principles: reflecting on the life and soul of ordinary people in the Russian provinces. Sonny is a contemporary psychological drama based on her own script, as is customary for her. The film focuses on the father-son relation in this unusual single parent family (the mother left when the boy was still little). The father (played by the excellent Viktor Sukhorukov) cares for his only teenage son with extraordinary intensity and passion, which results in the son feeling suffocated. Trying to free himself from home, Andrei finds escape amongst his teenage friends and, above all, with a new girl who is hitch-hiking through the country. Andrei disappears with her, and then the drama turns into a detective plot: a business man is found dead, while his car is being used by the two young adventurers…. (http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/synok/)

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Seville European Film Festival : SEFF, Seville (Spain), 2011
- Prague International Film Festival : Febiofest, Prague (Czech Republic), 2010
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2010
- Festival "Etonnants voyageurs" à Saint Malo, Saint Malo (France), 2010
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2010
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2010
- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2010
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2010
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2009
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009

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