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BITTER LOVE

By Jerzy SLADKOWSKI

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Documentary - Completed 2020

A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a doubtful young couple meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise on Volga. What does fate have in store for them?

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2020

International Competition

Krakow IFF 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SWEDEN, POLAND, FINLAND
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Director(s)
- Jerzy SLADKOWSKI
- Producer(s)
- Antonio RUSSO MERENDA (GINESTRA FILM)
- Synopsis
- On a three-week cruise on the river Volga, passengers are looking for an escape from their lives,
  looking for change – and looking for love.
  This floating matchmaking agency has it all. There are tarot cards and spells. There’s piano playing
  and opera. There are gym classes on the deck. There are melancholy men with guitars and song
  lyrics scribbled in notebooks, there are torn photographs of bygone loves. There’s vodka, of
  course, lots of vodka.
  Static, unglamorous yet poetic images of the seemingly endless shores of the Volga paint a
  backdrop for the passengers’ emotional journeys. Inside the ship, the intimacy of the encounters
  takes viewers of the film on their own emotional journey, into the rivers of two universal human
  feelings: loneliness and undying hope.

BITTER LOVE

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