OLGA

By Elie GRAPPE

CANAL+ - as BROAD

Drama - Completed 2021

2013. A 15-year-old gymnast is torn between Switzerland - where she is training for the European Championship in preparation for the Olympics - and Ukraine, where her mother is a journalist, reporting on Euromaidan.

Festivals
& Awards

La Semaine de la Critique 2021
Prix SACD
Filmfest Hamburg 2021
Sichtwechsel Film Award
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, RUSSIAN, UKRANIAN
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elie GRAPPE
    • Writer(s)
    • Elie GRAPPE, Raphaëlle DESPLECHIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Tom DERCOURT (CINEMA DEFACTO), Jean-Marc FROHLE (Point Prod)
    • Synopsis
    • 2013. Olga is a 15-year-old passionate Ukrainian gymnast. Exiled in Switzerland, she does her best to fit into the national team. But the Euromaidan revolt erupts in Kiev, suddenly involving everyone she cares about. As the young girl prepares the European Championship, the revolution enters her life and shakes everything up on its way…