DOROTCHKA

By Olga DELANE

DOPPELPLUSULTRA FILMPRODUKTION GMBH - as PROD

Female director - Completed 2018

A powerful, stylized portrait of the 90 year old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka who philosophizes about life, love, regret and loneliness.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2018
Short Film Competition
Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2019
Kortfilmfestivalen 2019
MakeDox 2019
OpenEyes Film Festival 2019
Two Riversides Film Festival 2019
Portobello Film Festival 2019
Women over 50 Festival 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Female director, Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 30 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Olga DELANE
    • Synopsis
    • In the Siberian countryside, marriage is traditionally seen as the greatest achievable happiness for a woman. But the 90-year-old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka, has always remained alone. At the kitchen table, she contemplates life, love, regret and loneliness—has she maybe brought this fate upon herself?

      The film is a spinoff of a film that screened at IDFA 2016 any many other international film festivals, Siberian Love, in which filmmaker Olga Delane explored the same views on love and marriage. T

      The beautiful, static images of Dorotchka in and around her wooden house, against the backdrop of a relentless
      landscape in which there’s constant hard work to be done, are reminiscent of 19thcentury
      paintings of romanticized agricultural life. Wringing her hands at the kitchen table,

      Dorotchka speaks in short sentences peppered with expletives, making it clear that even women like her have their hearts broken. Stylized shots of rural life are combined with comical blackandwhite footage of Russian country weddings, folk dancing and singing:
      a promise of opportunities in a bygone era.