Yuri SCHILLER Юрий ШИЛЛЕР Youri SCHILLER   Russia, 2010, 90 mn  Colour, fiction

Sparrow ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Воробей    Le Moineau  Vorobey

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Plot synopsis

According to a local legend, many years ago horses in the village Vasilievka appeared by some miracle. Since that time the famous herd of horses was cherishingly protected by the villagers – they managed to save the horses even in the time of war and hunger. But nowdays, when a failure of crops happened here and the chairman of village council has to decide how to pay people their salaries and how to return the credit given by the bank, he has no other choice but to sent horses to a slaughter-house. The whole village tries to protect horses, but the economical practicability is more important than all other arguments. And now the only one who is ready to protect the herd is little Mitya Vorobiev, the son of the shepherd.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Iurii Shiller : Sparrow (Vorobei, 2010), José ALANIZ, kinokultura.com, 2011

 

Review by José Alaniz, Kinokultura

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Cairo International Film Festival for Children, Cairo (Egypt), 2012

- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2012

- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2012

- Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Zlin (Czech Republic), 2011

- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2011

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011

- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010

- Short Film Festival "ARTkino", Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2010

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010

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