Yelena LASKARI
Елена ЛАСКАРИ
Elena LASKARI
Russia, 2020, 79mn 
documentary
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Под наркозом

 

 Anesthetized

 Sous anesthésie

 
Directed by : Yelena LASKARI (Елена ЛАСКАРИ)
Writing credits : Yelena LASKARI (Елена ЛАСКАРИ)
Cinematography : Aleksandra IVANOVA (Александра ИВАНОВА)
Music : Anton SILAYEV (Антон СИЛАЕВ)
Produced by : Aleksey KHANYUTIN (Алексей ХАНЮТИН), Yekaterina MELIKSETOVA (Екатерина МЕЛИКСЕТОВА,)
 

Plot synopsis
On New Year's Eve, the ambulance service and the trauma department of the hospital in Torzhok have a lot of work. Someone has been frying cutlets and got an extensive burn, someone’s broken his leg, someone’s having a birth to a sixth child, and someone just got drunk and fell under the wheels of a passing car. This elderly woman was beaten by her daughter; that man has all the symptoms of a heart attack but he refuses to be hospitalized... People argue, shout, cry, and resist. And only under anesthesia do they calm down and become silent. Anesthesia is like a metaphor of modern life, anesthesia is dispersed in the air. We hear it in the President’s New Year’s congratulatory speech and calm down as well... And only the ambulance starts the engine and rushes to the next call.
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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2022
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana", Perm (Russia), 2021
- National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2020