Kira MURATOVA
Кира МУРАТОВА
Kira MOURATOVA
USSR, 1989, 156mn 
Colour, fiction
The Asthenic Syndrome
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Астенический синдром

 

 Le Syndrome asthénique

 Astenicheskiy Sindrom

 
Directed by : Kira MURATOVA (Кира МУРАТОВА)
Writing credits : Aleksandr CHERNYKH (Александр ЧЕРНЫХ), Kira MURATOVA (Кира МУРАТОВА), Sergey POPOV (Сергей ПОПОВ)
 
Cast
Olga ANTONOVA (Ольга АНТОНОВА)
Viktor ARISTOV (Виктор АРИСТОВ)
Natalya BUZKO (Наталья БУЗЬКО)
Aleksandr CHERNYKH (Александр ЧЕРНЫХ)
Sergey POPOV (Сергей ПОПОВ)
Vera_2 STOROZHEVA (Вера_2 СТОРОЖЕВА)
Aleksandra SVENSKAYA (Александра СВЕНСКАЯ)
Galina ZAKHURDAEVA (Галина ЗАХУРДАЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir PANKOV (Владимир ПАНКОВ)
Production design : Evgeniy GOLUBENKO (Евгений ГОЛУБЕНКО), Oleg IVANOV (Олег ИВАНОВ)
Production : Odessa Film Studios, Studio d'Odessa
Release date in Russia : 02/02/1990
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media, Kinopoisk
Awards :
Silver Bear Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1990
Prix "Nika" du meilleur film, 1990
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Potemkine films. 2025. Titre : Kira Mouratova Coffret 5 fims.
Contenu et Bonus
- le Blu-ray du film Brèves rencontres
- le Blu-ray du film Les Longs Adieux
- le Blu-ray du film Parmi les pierres grises
- le Blu-ray du film Changement de destinée
- le Blu-ray du film Le syndrôme asthénique
Plot synopsis
In the first part, a woman doctor, deeply pertubed by the recent death of her husband, refuses to treat one of her patients and later goes out and picks up a drunk and takes him home with her for sex. In the second part, a film school teacher asks his students what they think of the first part.
 
Commentaries
Beyond the canon: Soviet cinema, , 2024
Escapism by Design. Paper Architecture in Late Soviet Cinema, Raymond DELUCA, eefb.org, 2021
10 movies that define Russian cinema, Yulia SHAMPOROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2017
Le cinéma russe, vingt-cinq ans déjà..., Marilyne FELLOUS, kinoglaz.fr, 2010
Le cinéma soviétique, un domaine en partage, Eugénie ZVONKINE, Mise au point, 2010
Asthenic syndrome, Jane TAUBMAN, Flicks Books, 2000
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Architecture and Social Life in Russian Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Récidive, Orléans (France), 2024
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2022
- Festival Bridges. Bozar. East of West films festival, Brussels (Belgium), 2019
- Rétrospective Kira Mouratova à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2019
- FEMA / La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2019
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2019
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2018
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2017
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2015
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2013
- Belfort International Film Festival "Entrevues", Belfort (France), 2010
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2010
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2009
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine, Nancy (France), 2008
- Retrospective Kira Muratova, Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (kinoglaz.fr), 2005
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1990
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1990
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