Konstantin FAM
Константин ФАМ
Konstantin FAM
Russia, 2018, 104mn 
Colour, fiction
Witnesses
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Свидетели

 

 Les Témoins

 Svideteli

 
Directed by : Konstantin FAM (Константин ФАМ)
Writing credits : Konstantin FAM (Константин ФАМ)
Music : Egor ROMANENKO (Егор РОМАНЕНКО)
Produced by : Egor ODINTSOV (Егор ОДИНЦОВ )
Production : RUSSIAN FILM GROUP CORPORATION
Film revenue in Russia : 0.0315 million dollars
Spectators : 7880
Release date in Russia : 26/08/2018
 
Site : Page IMDb

Plot synopsis
Witnesses is a simple, yet powerful moving trilogy, depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. Each story in the film provides an unusual, yet harrowing perspective on the tragic events during World War II, told from the perspective of three uncanny witnesses. Shoes, the shortest of the stories, does not have a single line of dialogue or even a face featured in it. All we see is a pair of red shoes which beautifully depict first love, then marriage, the start of family life and the onset of the tragic war. Brutus, is a story about a German Shepherd dog separated from her beloved mistress and turned into a guard dog at a concentration camp. The final story, Violin, opens at the beginning of the 20th Century in a violin shop, where the instrument was created as a present for a Jewish boy. The violin becomes witness to the tragic events that followed during the Holocaust. A captivating score, makes this less than conventional film expose the sheer evil and terror that pervaded every aspect of the Holocaust, and is sure to open the eyes of everyone who sees it
 

Commentaries
Konstantin Fam: Witnesses (Svideteli, 2018), Raymond De LUCA, Kinokultura, 2019
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2018