CLOSENESS

TESNOTA

By Kantemir BALAGOV

ZETA FILMES - as DISTR

Drama - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2017
Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
Cannes 2017
Certain Regard
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 118 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kantemir BALAGOV
    • Writer(s)
    • Anton YARUSH, Kantemir BALAGOV
    • Producer(s)
    • Nokolay YANKIN
    • Synopsis
    • Long synopsis : 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish enclave, involving the police is out of the question. How will the family raise the money to save David? Ilana and her parents, each in their own way, will go as far as necessary, whatever the risks to themselves…