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SASHENKA

By Alexander ZHOVNA

Drama - Completed 2022

A shocking murder that shook Soviet society in the seventies and exposed the reverse side of the Soviet morality.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Countries
- UKRAINE
- Languages
- UKRANIAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 136 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexander ZHOVNA
- Writer(s)
- Alexander ZHOVNA
- Cast
- Milena KOMPANIIETS, Dmitry ORLOV, Dmitry NIZHELSKY, Oxana BURLAY-PITEROVA, Viktor RYBCHINSKIY
- Producer(s)
- Alexander ZHOVNA (Cinemastudio), Evgeny SIVKOV (Cinemastudio)
- Synopsis
- In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, the fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother's pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka as a girl, dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations.