Aleksandr KOTT
Александр КОТТ
Aleksandr KOTT
Russia / Kazakhstan, 2014, 95mn 
fiction
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Испытание

 

 Test

 Le Souffle

 
Directed by : Aleksandr KOTT (Александр КОТТ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr KOTT (Александр КОТТ)
 
Cast
Karim PAKACHAKOV (Карим ПАКАЧАКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Levan KAPANADZE (Леван КАПАНАДЗЕ)
Production design : Eduard GALKIN (Эдуард ГАЛКИН)
Music : Aleksey AIGY (Алексей АЙГИ)
Produced by : Anna KAGARLICKAYA (Анна КАГАРЛИЦКАЯ), Sergey_2 KOZLOV (Сергей_2 КОЗЛОВ), Igor TOLSTUNOV (Игорь ТОЛСТУНОВ)
Other persons :
Актёры (Acteurs): Елена Ан (Elena Ane), Данила Рассомахин (Danila Rassomakhine), Нариман Бекбулатов-Арешев (Nariman Bekboulatov-Arechev).
Companies : Production company of Igor Tolstunov
Film revenue in Russia : 0.010478 million dollars
Spectators : 1900
Release Date in Russia : 18/09/2014
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 2015-06-10, Site

Awards :
Best music Aleksey AIGY , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Best Cinematography Levan KAPANADZE , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Diploma Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Special Prize Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2014
Special mention Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
First prize International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014

DVD with subtitles
Editor : ZED. 2015. Titre : Le Souffle

Plot synopsis
August, 1953. The Muscovite Maxim Smirnov, an assistant cameraman, travels to Semipalatinsk as part of a film crew with a secret mission. Here, in the open spaces of the Kazakh steppe, he encounters his first love, the young Dinara. The young people do not know that very soon they will be at the epicentre of events which will forever change not only their lives, but also those of mankind. Here, in Semipalatinsk, in this hot summer, the test of the first hydrogen bomb will take place...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- URuSSie. Panorama du cinéma russe d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Penmarc'h (France), 2016
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2016
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2016
- Festival du film russe, Beirut (Lebanon), 2016
- Russian Film Festival, Orléans (France), 2015
- Les rencontres des cinémas d'Europe, Aubenas (France), 2015
- Festival international du film d'environnement, Paris (France), 2015
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2015-06-10
- Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2015
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2015
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2015
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2015
- New Cinema Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2014
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2014
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2014
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2014
- Tokyo International Film Festival : TIFF, Tokyo (Japan), 2014
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2014
- Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2014