Aleksey FEDORCHENKO
Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО
Alekseï FEDORTCHENKO
Russia, 2010, 75mn 
Colour, fiction
Ovsyanki
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Овсянки

 

 Silent Souls

 Le Dernier voyage de Tania

Other titles : The Buntings
 
Directed by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО)
Writing credits : Denis OSOKIN (Денис ОСОКИН)
 
Cast
Yulia AUG (Юлия АУГ) ...Tanya
Igor SERGEEV (Игорь СЕРГЕЕВ) ...Aist
Viktor SUKHORUKOV (Виктор СУХОРУКОВ)
Yuri TSURILO (Юрий ЦУРИЛО) ...Miron
 
Cinematography : Mikhail KRICHMAN (Михаил КРИЧМАН)
Music : Andrey KARASYOV (Андрей КАРАСЕВ)
Produced by : Igor MISHIN (Игорь МИШИН), Mary NAZARI (Мэри НАЗАРИ)
Companies : aprilMIGpictures Film Company, 29 February Film Company
International sales :mishin45@gmail.com, mary.nazari@gmail.com
Film revenue in Russia : 0.411 million dollars
 
Release date in France : 2010-11-03, Site

Awards :
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Viktor SUKHORUKOV , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011
First prize International Arctic Film Festival "Polar Lights", Murmansk (Russia), 2011
Best Cinematography Mikhail KRICHMAN , Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2010
Ecumenical Jury Prize Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2010
FIPRESCI Prize Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2010
Best directing International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2010
Best directing Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2010
First prize Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2010
Guilde of Russian Director Prize International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best Screenplay Denis OSOKIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best Screenplay Denis OSOKIN , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best music Andrey KARASYOV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Memento Films. 2011.
Version originale russe, sous-titres en français
Version doublée en français
Bonus : interview d'Alekseï Fedortchenko, filmographie, bande annonce
Sortie du DVD et du VoD: 05/04/2011

Plot synopsis
The Buntings is based on a short story by a young author from Kazan, Denis Osokin, who wrote the screenplay for this movie requiem that is a movie about love and death. The roots of its subject is derived from the ethnology of the Russian nation and its connection with the Mari, a small Finno-Ugric people, who were assimilated by the Russian as early as the Middle Ages. The movie is set in the present day and tells a simple story. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former's beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
 

commentaries
The Most Significant Russian Films of the Last Decade [2005-2016], Academic Studies Press, 2019
The Smoke of the Fatherland : Body as Territory, Sexuality as Identity in Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko, Tatyana MIKHAILOVA, kinokultura.com, 2012
Aleksei Fedorchenko: Silent Souls (Ovsianki, 2010), Serguei A. OUSHAKINE, kinokultura.com, 2011
Le Dernier Voyage de Tanya : voyage envoûtant aux confins de l'histoire russe, Jacques MANDELBAUM, Le Monde, 2010
Le Dernier Voyage de Tanya [2009, Aleksei Fedorchenko], François CAU, petit-bulletin.fr, 2010
Меря, победившие смерть [о фильме Овсянки Алексея Федорченко], Mikhail TROFIMENKOV, kommersant.ru, 2010
Voyage dans la Russie païenne [A propos du film Le dernier voyage de Tanya d'Alexeï Fedortchenko], Mikhail TROFIMENKOV, courrierinternational.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2023
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2016
- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2014
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2011
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2011
- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2011
- Copenhagen International Film Festival / CPH PIX, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2011
- Festival "Etonnants voyageurs" à Saint Malo, Saint Malo (France), 2011
- Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2011
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2011
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2011
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2011
- The International Cinematographers Film Festival “Manaki Brothers, Bitola (Macedonia), 2011
- Festival Internacional de Cine, Mexico (Mexico), 2011
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2011
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2011
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2011
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- International Arctic Film Festival "Polar Lights", Murmansk (Russia), 2011
- Art Film Festival, Trencin (Slovakia), 2011
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2011
- San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco (USA), 2011
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2011
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2011
- Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Mar del Plata (Argentina), 2010
- Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), Vienna (Austria), 2010
- Film Festival Ghent, Ghent (Belgium), 2010
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2010
- New Cinema Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010
- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010
- Festival International des Jeunes Réalisateurs de Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Saint Jean de Luz (France), 2010
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2010
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2010-11-03
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2010
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), 2010
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik (Iceland ), 2010
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2010
- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2010
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival «2-in-1», Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2010
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival Bratislava, Brastislava (Slovakia), 2010
- Seville European Film Festival : SEFF, Seville (Spain), 2010
- Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival, Antalya (Turkey), 2010
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2010
- Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2010
- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010
- The New York Film Festival, New York (USA), 2010

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