Yuri SCHILLER
Юрий ШИЛЛЕР
Youri SCHILLER
Russia, 2010, 90mn 
Colour, fiction
Vorobey
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Воробей

 

 Sparrow

 Le Moineau

 
Directed by : Yuri SCHILLER (Юрий ШИЛЛЕР)
Writing credits : Yuri SCHILLER (Юрий ШИЛЛЕР)
 
Cast
Denis BABUSHKIN (Денис БАБУШКИН) ...Mitka-Sparrow
Kristina BABUSHKINA (Кристина БАБУШКИНА) ...Nastya
Yuri NAZAROV (Юрий НАЗАРОВ) ...Ilya Petrovich
Sergey REUSENKO (Сергей РЕУСЕНКО) ...Kuzmich
Sergey UGRYUMOV (Сергей УГРЮМОВ) ...Stepan
 
Cinematography : Oleg MARTYNOV (Олег МАРТЫНОВ)
Production design : Vladimir FILIPPOV (Владимир ФИЛИППОВ)
Music : Boris BAZUROV (Борис БАЗУРОВ)
Sound : Yevgeni KADIMSKY (Евгений КАДИМСКИЙ)
Companies : Centr-Studiya nacionalnogo filma XXI vek
 

Plot synopsis
According to a local legend, many years ago horses in the village Vasilievka appeared by some miracle. Since that time the famous herd of horses was cherishingly protected by the villagers – they managed to save the horses even in the time of war and hunger. But nowdays, when a failure of crops happened here and the chairman of village council has to decide how to pay people their salaries and how to return the credit given by the bank, he has no other choice but to sent horses to a slaughter-house. The whole village tries to protect horses, but the economical practicability is more important than all other arguments. And now the only one who is ready to protect the herd is little Mitya Vorobiev, the son of the shepherd.
 

commentaries
Iurii Shiller : Sparrow (Vorobei, 2010), José ALANIZ, kinokultura.com, 2011
 
Review by José Alaniz, Kinokultura

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Cairo International Film Festival for Children, Cairo (Egypt), 2012
- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2012
- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2012
- Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Zlin (Czech Republic), 2011
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2011
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010
- Short Film Festival "ARTkino", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010