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A RUSSIAN YOUTH

MALCHIK RUSSKIY

By Alexander ZOLOTUKHIN

NEW HOLLAND ISLAND INTERNATIONAL DEBUT FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

First film - Completed 2018

“A Russian youth” is a story about the young soldier who has lost eyesight on World War I and became a listener in the air defense system. He listened to enemy airplanes through huge pipes. But through the sounds he studied the world also.

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Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019
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    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 72 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexander ZOLOTUKHIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Eduard PICHUGIN (LENFILM STUDIOS), Alexander SOKUROV (Example of intonation)
    • Synopsis
    • In a First World War trench, a uniformed Russian boy with freckles loses his sight during a German gas attack. Due to his keen sense of hearing, he is kept at the front and deployed to listen out for enemy planes at the giant metal pipes that form a kind of early-warning system.
      The colours are faded, as if the images were from another time. But there’s also a stylised, abstract quality to the grainy footage. Little by little, the bodies take centre stage – their vulnerability and their energy, they almost seem like creatures. The camera and the editing keep pace with the young blind man. He lurches through the military camp, annoying the other men because he can only grasp his surroundings by touch. His face remains open, innocent. He seems to be trying to find a place for himself as a soldier, both literally and figuratively. Contemporary documentary recordings of orchestra rehearsals for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 30 (1909) and Symphonic Dances Op. 45 (1940) don’t interrupt the narrative flow, but rather translate motifs and themes into an acoustic resonance chamber.

      The film is Alexander Zolotukhin’s debut, who is Alexander Sokurov’s studio student. The production is supported by the Alexander Sokurov’s charity Foundation of cinematography “Example of intonation”.
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