IMMORTAL

SUREMATU

By Ksenia OKHAPKINA

ASPECT RATIO - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2019

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality.

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary IFF 2019
Documentary Films - Competition GRAND PRIX FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Sarajevo FF 2019
Kinoscope
Mar Del Plata IFF 2019
Nuevos Autores - Nuevas Autoras
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ESTONIA, LATVIA
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 61 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ksenia OKHAPKINA
    • Producer(s)
    • Riho VASTRIK (OU VESILIND), Uldis CEKULIS
    • Synopsis
    • The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in an imperialist society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions? The film is a Nietzschean treat, asking the core existential question: is a human being ever born free?
    • Partners & financing
    • Estonian Film Institute
      Estonian Cultural Endowment
      Latvian National Film Center
    • Production schedule
    • 2017 - development
      February 2018 - November 2018 - production
      January 2019 - June 2019 - post-production
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Feb 01, 2018
    • End of shooting
    • Nov 30, 2018