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House with a turret
35 mm – 2012 – Ukraine – 79 min – Black & White – Drama
House with a turret
A film by Eva Neymann
A 8-year-old boy is travelling with his mother towards his grandfather, but their journey is stopped when the young woman dies of typhus in an unknown town, just as poor and in ruins as any other on the way. However, the boy is determined to go on. Eva Neymann’s film is a visual journey into a country covered in snow and left poor by war. This is a place of beautiful, deserted landscapes and people overcome by both need and greed.
The tranquil black-and-white images created by Lithuanian cameraman Rimmvydas Leipus masterfully evoke the atmosphere of the Second World War’s penultimate year in the Soviet Union. The picture was based on motifs drawn from the autobiographical story of the same name by writer and screenwriter Friedrich Gorenstein, who also penned the script for
Tarkovsky’s Solaris.
Original language: Russian
Produced by: 1+1 PRODUCTION
Festivals:
Film by the Sea, the Netherlands 2012 / Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia 2012 / Kaunas Film Festival, Lithuania 2012 / BFI London Film Festival, UK 2012 / Cottbus Film Festival, Germany 2012 / Plan Séquence Arras Film Festival, France 2012 / Tallinn Black nights, Estonia 2012 / Pau International Film Festival, France 2012
Awards:
Winner of The East of the West Award, Karlovy Vary Intn’l Film Festival 2012 / Jury prize, Batumi Film Festival, Georgia 2012 / Grand Prize, Tallinn Black Nights, Estonia 2012
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Eva Neymann
Eva Neymann was born on June 21, 1974 in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. A graduate of the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Her film “At the River” (2007) was shown on the Moscow International Film Festival and became the first Ukrainian film presented on the festival after 1991, the year Ukraine got independence. On the 37th International Film Festival in Lagov (Poland) and hors concours on International Film Festival in Rotterdam it gained the 2d place. The film Gods’ Ways gained First Steps Award 2007 in Germany.
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