Nikita ARZHAKOV
Никита АРЖАКОВ
Nikita ARJAKOV
Russia, 2006, 45mn 
Colour, fiction
Aanchyk
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Аанчык

 

 Aanchyk

 Aantchyk

 
Directed by : Nikita ARZHAKOV (Никита АРЖАКОВ)
Writing credits : Nikita ARZHAKOV (Никита АРЖАКОВ), Yuri BERYOZKIN (Юрий БЕРЕЗКИН), Dmitry SIVTSEV (Дмитрий СИВЦЕВ)
Cinematography : Yuri BERYOZKIN (Юрий БЕРЕЗКИН)
 

Plot synopsis
This short drama tells the story of the arranged marriage of Aantchyk, a young Yakut girl in the Tsarist era in northern Siberia. After receiving recommendations from her parents, she goes to live with her young husband and his adoptive mother. The stepmother, who does not accept the presence of the young girl and, slyly, makes sure that her son punishes his wife for her behavior. The film depicts the life of the Yakuts before the Soviet collectivization of the 1920s and 1930s. Isolated on vast meadows dozens of kilometers apart from each other in the taiga, the families lived from cattle and horse breeding as well as from the products of hunting and fishing. The theatricality of the film, sometimes of a raw reality, transports us to a bygone era and confronts the tragic fate of a wife in her in-laws.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Semaine de la Sibérie Cinéma et Rencontres, Strasbourg (France), 2012
- Festival international du film polaire, Paris / Lyon (France), 2011