Fyodor POPOV
Федор ПОПОВ
Fiodor POPOV
Russia, 2002, 83mn 
Colour, fiction
Kavskaya ruletka
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Кавказская рулетка

 

 La Roulette caucasienne

 Kavskazkaya ruletka

 
Directed by : Fyodor POPOV (Федор ПОПОВ)
Writing credits : Alla KRINITSYNA (Алла КРИНИЦЫНА), Viktor MEREZHKO (Виктор МЕРЕЖКО)
 
Cast
Tatyana CHERKASOVA (Татьяна ЧЕРКАСОВА) ...Anna
Sergey GARMASH (Сергей ГАРМАШ)
Aleksandr GOLOVIN (Александр ГОЛОВИН)
Anatoli GORYACHEV (Анатолий ГОРЯЧЕВ)
Nina USATOVA (Нина УСАТОВА) ...Maria
 
Cinematography : Lomer AKHVLEDIANI (Ломер АХВЛЕДИАНИ)
Production design : Sergey FILENKO (Сергей ФИЛЕНКО), Olga SURVILLO (Ольга СУРВИЛЛО)
Music : Andrey GOLOVIN (Андрей ГОЛОВИН)
Produced by : Aleksandr KOTELEVSKY (Александр КОТЕЛЕВСКИЙ), Fyodor POPOV (Федор ПОПОВ)
Production : Stella Studio, Krug
 

Plot synopsis
Thriller set against the backdrop of the war in Chechnya. Anna, a young Russian girl, a sniper for the Chechen fighters, and Maria, the mother of a soldier imprisoned by the Chechens, meet on a train heading to Russia. Anna wants to take her baby away from the war-torn country, but Maria wants to force her to leave him there until her son has been freed...
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Fedor Popov, Caucasian Roulette [Kavkazskaia ruletka] (2002), Daniel WILD, kinokultura.com, 2005
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival Double Dv@, Different cities (Internet), 2011
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2003
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003

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