Country: Ukraine
Year: 2024
Duration: 95'
Oleg, a former soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that fought against both Nazi Germany and the communist Soviet Union for Ukrainian independence during World War II. After an amnesty deal is reached, Oleg is released from prison camp and returns to Ukraine, where he tries to find his place in peacetime society.
Biography
film director
Stanislav Gurenko
(Kyiv, 1987) studied at Global Cinematography Institute (Los Angeles). He directed a lot of music videos and commercials and in 2016 he made a documentary road movie, Dustards, that won many awards. In 2024, he co-directed with Andrij Al’ferov the feature Dissident.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dustards (mm, 2016), Dissident (coregia/co-director Andrii Al’ferov, 2024).
Andrii Al’ferov
(Ukraine) is a film critic, curator, director and producer. A member of the FIPRESCI, he has curated several exhibitions, written for numerous magazines, and published the book Flights in Dreams and Reality (2020). In 2024, he co-directs the film Dissident with Stanislav Gurenko.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dissident (coregia Stanislav Gurenko, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“Our film is not an attempt at chronology but a tangled tangle of almost randomly snatched-out events that have risen in a lump in the throat of history. The map of our country’s history is full of blank spots; We didn’t set out to fill them. It’s impossible. Sometimes the roving gaze of the reporting camera, defocusing and convulsive zooming in its desperate attempt to assimilate what happened, is more effective than a careful academic approach.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Stanislav Gurenko, Andrii Al’ferov. SCREENPLAY: Oleksandr Kačan, Vladislav Micovśkij, Andrii Al’ferov. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Oleksandr Bojko. EDITING: Maksim Miklin, Stanislav Gurenko, Andrii Al’ferov. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Volodymyr Švydenk. COSTUME DESIGN: Olena Rukavišnikova. MUSIC: Evgenij Gal’perin. SOUND: Innokentij (Serhij) Zatopočnyj. CAST: Oleksandr Pryščepa, Viktorija Romaško, Viktor Šestakov, Dima Jarošenko, Oleh Stefań, Vasylʹ Mazur. PRODUCTION: Andrii Al’ferov, Yurii Kalynovskyi, Oleksandr Omelianov, Andrii Osipov, Oleksandr Rodnianskyi for Joyfilms.
CONTACT: Aleksandr Omelianov aleks.omelyanov@gmail.com
