Yusuf RAZYKOV
Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ
Youssouf RAZYKOV
Russia, 2017, 76mn 
fiction
Turkish saddle
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Турецкое седло

 

 La Selle turcique

 Turetskoye sedlo

 
Directed by : Yusuf RAZYKOV (Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ)
Writing credits : Yusuf RAZYKOV (Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ)
 
Cast
Valery MASLOV (Валерий МАСЛОВ )
Veronika KUZNETSOVA (Вероника КУЗНЕЦОВА )
Vitali DAUSHEV (Виталий ДАУШЕВ )
Ilya KOVRIZHNYH (Илья КОВРИЖНЫХ)
 
Produced by : Philip BRUSNIKIN (Филипп БРУСНИКИН ), Aleksandr GADALOV (Александр ГАДАЛОВ), Daria LAVROVA (Дарья ЛАВРОВА), Denis LUZANOV (Денис ЛУЗАНОВ), Yusuf RAZYKOV (Юсуф РАЗЫКОВ)
Production : «Тритона» / "Triton"
Film revenue in Russia : 0.0048 million dollars
Spectators : 1 300
Release date in Russia : 12/04/2018
 

Awards :
Best music Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2017
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Diploma Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2017
Special Prize International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2017

Plot synopsis
The film′s hero, Ilyich, cannot understand what′s wrong with him. Ilyich is a former «mole», an external observation agent in the KGB, then FSB. A skilled instructor. Now he is retired. From loneliness, he continues to watch those who catch his attention and curiosity. The doctor diagnoses him with empty sella syndrome (the syndrome of an empty Turkish Seat), which poses no danger for society… Sella turcica is the Latin name for the part of the brain where the pituitary gland (hypophysis) is located; in English, it is called the Turkish Seat. Migraines, dizziness, speech disorders, memory problems, asthenia — all these are signs for a disturbance in this area, called in medicine «Syndrome of the Turkish Seat».
http://www.kinotavr.ru/
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Yusup Razykov: Sella Turcica (Turetskoe sedlo, 2017), Seth GRAHAM, Kinokultura, 2018
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2019
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2017
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2017
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2017
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2017
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2017
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2017
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2017