Irina VASILYEVA Ирина ВАСИЛЬЕВА Irina VASSILIEVA   Russia, 2010, 44 mn  Colour, documentary

The Swamp ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Болото    Le Marais  Boloto

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Plot synopsis

The film is made in the long-forgotten genre of political satire. As is well-known, much has changed in Russia over the last 20 years, and yet nothing has changed over the last 300. The particularities of the Russian mentality are shown through a portrait of today's Ivan Susanin, who every summer leads tours through the forests of Kostroma, working as a forest ranger in the winters.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

 

The film is made in the long-forgotten genre of political satire. As is well-known, much has changed in Russia over the last 20 years, and yet nothing has changed over the last 300. The particularities of the Russian mentality are shown through a portrait of today's Ivan Susanin, who every summer leads tours through the forests of Kostroma, working as a forest ranger in the winters. The film was awarded the top prize at "TeleProfi - 2010". The director Irina Vasilyeva is the winner of the Stanislav and Andrey Rostotsky prize and winner of the "Window to Europe" film festival (2009).
(http://www.rusdocfilmfest.org/English/filmsEN.html)

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2011

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York (Tribeca), New York (USA), 2011

- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Open Festival of the Documentaries “Russia”, Yekaterinburg (Russia), 2010

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