Alena SEMENOVA
Алена СЕМЕНОВА
Alena SEMENOVA
Aleksandr SMIRNOV
Александр СМИРНОВ
Aleksandr SMIRNOV
Russia, 2009, 98mn 
Colour, fiction
The Rowan Waltz / Ashberry Waltz
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Рябиновый вальс

 

 La Valse du sorbier

 Ryabinovyy vals

 
Directed by : Alena SEMENOVA (Алена СЕМЕНОВА), Aleksandr SMIRNOV (Александр СМИРНОВ)
Writing credits : Tatyana MIROSHNIK (Татьяна МИРОШНИК), Alena SEMENOVA (Алена СЕМЕНОВА), Mariya SNEZHNAYA (Мария СНЕЖНАЯ)
 
Cast
Karina ANDOLENKO (Карина АНДОЛЕНКО) ...Polina
Leonid BITSHEVINE (Леонид БИЧЕВИН) ...Smirnov
Konstantin MILOVANOV (Константин МИЛОВАНОВ) ...Dorofeyev
Vladislav VETROV (Владислав ВЕТРОВ) ...Kirillov
Yelizaveta ARZAMASVA (Елизавета АРЗАМАСОВА) ...Lena
Sergey GOROBCHENKO (Сергей ГОРОБЧЕНКО) ...Egor
Daria MELNIKOVA (Дарья МЕЛЬНИКОВА) ...Lyuba
Maksim EMELYANOV (Максим ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ) ...Kostya
Valeria LANSKAIA (Валерия ЛАНСКАЯ) ...Marusya
Igor PUSHKAREV (Игорь ПУШКАРЕВ) ...Petrovich
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr SMIRNOV (Александр СМИРНОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr GILYAREVSKY (Александр ГИЛЯРЕВСКИЙ)
Music : Yevgeni DOGA (Евгений ДОГА)
Produced by : Vladimir YESINOV (Владимир ЕСИНОВ)
Release date in Russia : 2010
 

Awards :
Best music Yevgeni DOGA , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011
Audience Award "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2010
First prize International Film Festival "Love is Folly", Varna (Bulgaria), 2010
Best first film Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010

Plot synopsis
An exciting story about young miners who at the sake of their lives were neutralizing enemy’s mines in woods, roads and fields during the War and after the Victory. The humane ability to experience joy, to suffer, love and hate vividly manifested itself under those tragic conditions.

The flowers of rowan are delicate and fragile and bloom for less than ten days. The same appeared to the lives of the young girls who were sent to clear bombs left after the World War II on the fields of northern Russia. They were young, their lives were in bloom and their hearts were longing for love. Marusya was a promising artist. Polina, a young widow, was learning to live without her beloved. But destiny had its own plans for their lives. It prepared for each girl her own waltz on the battle field. (http://www.siff.com/MovieEnLists/2010/ShowDetail.aspx?dicID=5ED2F232-D293-4DFF-9BE6-275AA9457855&ID=cc798caf-4d38-4544-9775-bfe56b85314d)
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Alena Semenova, Aleksandr Smirnov : The Rowan Waltz (Riabinovyi val's, 2009), Frederick CORNEY, kinokultura.com, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2017
- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2012
- Budapest Russian Film Week, Budapest (Hungary), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Clevelant International Film Festival, Cleveland (USA), 2011
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2010
- International Film Festival "Love is Folly", Varna (Bulgaria), 2010
- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2010
- Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo (Egypt), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010

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