Nikolay KHOMERIKY
Николай ХОМЕРИКИ
Nikolaï KHOMERIKI
Russia, 2011, 96mn 
Black and white, fiction
Serdtsa Bumerang
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Сердца бумеранг

 

 Heart's Boomerang

 Boomerang du coeur

 
Directed by : Nikolay KHOMERIKY (Николай ХОМЕРИКИ)
Writing credits : Nikolay KHOMERIKY (Николай ХОМЕРИКИ), Aleksandr RODIONOV (Александр РОДИОНОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr YATSENKO (Александр ЯЦЕНКО)
Klavdia KORSHUNOVA (Клавдия КОРШУНОВА)
Natalia (Наталья БАТРАК)
Aleksandr ILIN jr. (Александр ИЛЬИН мл.)
Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА)
 
Cinematography : Shandor BERKESHI (Шандор БЕРКЕШИ)
Production design : Denis BAUER (Денис БАУЭР)
Produced by : Svetlana KUCHMAYEVA (Светлана КУЧМАЕВА), Anastasia RAGOZINA (Анастасия РАГОЗИНА)
Companies : Valday
Release Date in Russia : 06/2011
 
Sites : Page Allociné, page IMDb

Plot synopsis
Twenty-three-years-old Kostya is working as an assistant of a machinist in the subway. One day he goes for a check-up and the doctor diagnoses Kostya that he has a weak heart and says that he has to radically change his lifestyle and his job. Kostya decides not to tell anyone about his sickness. Deep inside, however, he re-examines the life he has led until now, and realizes that his mother is his only source of stability. He doesn’t really know how to relate to other people, nor does he know where his relationship with his girlfriend is going. He is trying to live his life as usual, but instead starts to think more and more about the true meaning of life. Meanwhile, hypnotic shots of the trains rumbling through the tunnels seem to reflect the mental state of a man forced by necessity to take his life into his own hands. (http://www.festivaldesevilla.com/secciones/proyeccion.php?)id=434&seccion=69&titulo_seccion=Official%20Section
 

commentaries
Les 11 meilleurs films russes de 2011, Maria FADEEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2012
Nikolai Khomeriki: Heart’s Boomerang (Serdtsa Bumerang, 2011), Mihaela MIHAILOVA, kinokultura.com, 2012
Поезд следует без остановок. Сердце-бумеранг Николая Хомерики, Maksim LYUBOVICH, Искусствокино, 9, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Debut National Film Festival "Dvijenie", Omsk (Russia), 2013
- Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2013
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2012
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2012
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2011
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2011
- Torino Film Festival, Turin (Italy), 2011
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Seville European Film Festival : SEFF, Seville (Spain), 2011

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