1998, Nalchik, North Caucasus, Russia. Twenty-four-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish enclave, involving the police is out of the question. How will the family raise the money to save David? Ilana and her parents, each in their own way, will go as far as necessary, whatever the risks to themselves...
Biography
film director
Kantemir Balagov
Kantemir Balagov (Nalchik, Russia, 1991) graduated from Alexander Sokurov’s directing workshop at Kabardino-Balkarian State University in 2015. During his studies, he made a number of fiction and documentary films which took part in various domestic and international events. Beanpole has been selected for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, in Un certain regard, and his first feature film, Closeness (2017), was screened at TFF.
FILMOGRAFIA
Pervyy ya (cm, 2014), Andryukha (doc., cm 2015), Molody eschyo (mm, 2015), Tesnota (2017), Dylda (2019).
Declaration
film director
“What interested me most were the feelings a family would experience when learning of the kidnapping of their son and above all, what these relatives would not be prepared to do to save their kin. It is this moral clash that I wanted to explore and talk about. Clearly one would do anything to save a loved one, but what people are not prepared to do is what was most interesting to explore.”
Cast
& Credits
Kantemir Balagov
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Anton Yarush, Kantemir Balagov
fotografia/cinematography
Artem Yemelyanov
scenografia/production design
Alexey Paderin
costumi/costume design
Lydia Kryukova
suono/sound
Andrey Nikitin
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Darya Zhovner (Ilana), Olga Dragunova (Adina), Artem Tsypin (Avi), Nazir Zhukov (Zalim), Veniamin Kats (David)
produttori/producers
Nikolay Yankin, Edward Pichugin, Alexander Sokurov
produzione/production
Example of Intonation, Alexander Sokurov’s Fund, Lenfilm
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contatti/contacts
Wild Bunch
Esther Devos
edevos@wildbunch.eu
www.wildbunch.eu