Svetlana PROSKURINA
Светлана ПРОСКУРИНА
Svetlana PROSKOURINA
USSR, 1986, 77mn 
Colour, fiction
Playground
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Детская площадка

 

 La Cour pour les enfants

 Detskaya ploshchadka

 
Directed by : Svetlana PROSKURINA (Светлана ПРОСКУРИНА)
Writing credits : Pavel FINN (Павел ФИНН)
 
Cast
Natalia EGOROVA (Наталья ЕГОРОВА)
Vadim LYUBSHIN (Вадим ЛЮБШИН)
Viktor PROSKURIN (Виктор ПРОСКУРИН) ...Kaprov
Sergey RUSKIN (Сергей РУССКИН)
Daria SHPALIKOVA (Дарья ШПАЛИКОВА)
 
Cinematography : Tatyana LOGINOVA (Татьяна ЛОГИНОВА)
Production design : Boris BYKOV (Борис БЫКОВ)
Music : Vadim BIBERGAN (Вадим БИБЕРГАН)
Sound : Leonid GAVRICHENKO (Леонид ГАВРИЧЕНКО)
Production : Lenfilm
 

Plot synopsis
In her debut, Proskurina portrays the psychological paralysis of the last, lost Soviet generation based on a love story in which there is a criminal twist. A young couple grows up when the boy becomes involved in criminal activities. Svetlana Proskurina’s début feature is a love story with a criminal twist. Zhanna and Roman are very young and independent: she left the orphanage to work at a factory, and he is an ambulance driver. Their life together is seemingly uncomplicated and they rely on each other to survive the challenges of the hostile world around them. Beyond the surface of a simple romance lies a darker story of coming of age, choosing one’s destiny and facing the grim realities and compromises of adulthood. Roman gets involved in a criminal gang and finds himself torn between his commitments and his wild desire to succeed whatever the cost.
Source : www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
 
Proskurina attempts to capture the state of psychological paralysis and decline of the last and 'lost' young Soviet generation. The director is intensely focused on her characters and the psychology of their disintegration, thus escaping the danger of turning the film into a piece of 'applied social criticism'. In this early work Proskurina shows her preference for intimate, small-scale, mundane stories which, in spite of their singular nature, have a universal appeal and capture the fundamental traits of the 'human condition'. In this film she collaborated for the first time with Pavel Finn, who later on wrote the script for one of her most acclaimed films Accidental Waltz. (MB) Proskurina attempts to capture the state of psychological paralysis and decline of the last and 'lost' young Soviet generation. The director is intensely focused on her characters and the psychology of their disintegration, thus escaping the danger of turning the film into a piece of 'applied social criticism'. In this early work Proskurina shows her preference for intimate, small-scale, mundane stories which, in spite of their singular nature, have a universal appeal and capture the fundamental traits of the 'human condition'. In this film she collaborated for the first time with Pavel Finn, who later on wrote the script for one of her most acclaimed films Accidental Waltz. (MB)

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2012
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2008
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008