Aleksey KRASOVSKY
Алексей КРАСОВСКИЙ
Alekseï KRASSOVSKI
Russia, 2019, 73mn 
fiction
Holiday
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Праздник

 

 La Fête

 Prazdnik

 
Directed by : Aleksey KRASOVSKY (Алексей КРАСОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Aleksey KRASOVSKY (Алексей КРАСОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Yan TSAPNIK (Ян ЦАПНИК ) ...Gergi Voskresensky
Alena BABENKO (Алена БАБЕНКО) ...Margarita Voskresenskaya
Pavel TABAKOV (Павел ТАБАКОВ ) ...Denis Voskresensky
Anfisa CHERNYKH (Анфиса ЧЕРНЫХ) ...Lisa Voskresenskaya
Timofei TRIBUNTSEV (Тимофей ТРИБУНЦЕВ) ...Vitaly
Anastasia CHISTYAKOVA (Анастасия_2 ЧИСТЯКОВА) ...Masha
 
Cinematography : Sergey ASTAKHOV (Сергей АСТАХОВ)
Production design : Yevdokiya ZAMAKHINA (Евдокия ЗАМАХИНА)
Music : Ruslan LEPATOV (Руслан ЛЕПАТОВ)
Editing : Aleksey KRASOVSKY (Алексей КРАСОВСКИЙ)
Produced by : Aleksey KRASOVSKY (Алексей КРАСОВСКИЙ), Yulia KRISHTOFOVICH (Юлия КРИШТОФОВИЧ)
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
Holiday shows the audience a single night during the Great Patriotic War. The family of Georgii Aleksandrovich Voskresenskii, a researcher developing technology for chemical weapons in a secret institute, is celebrating the New Year in their house near besieged Leningrad. Obviously, the family belongs to the Soviet intellectual elite and for this reason, lives in a separate spacious house, in which every member including an old grandmother has their own room. The family is very well supplied even during the famine. Because the daughter, Lisa, and son, Denis, brought unexpected guests, Voskresenskii’s wife, Margarita, keeps trying to hide their privileges and attempts to present the whole family as ordinary and normal. However, the Voskresenskii’s guests, Masha, a hungry and weak girl from a bomb shelter, and a one-legged former soldier do not buy into her attempts and ask many questions. https://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/holiday/
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Une comédie russe qui ne fait pas rire tout le monde [La Fête (Праздник), 2019, de Alekseï KRASSOVSKI], 24heures.ch, 2024
Joël Chapron : 'En Russie, la liste des films interdits ne cesse de s'allonger', Joël CHAPRON, Le Monde, 28 novembre 2022, 2022
Prazdnik de Alekseï KRASSOVSKI (2019), Julien MORVAN, perestroikino.fr, 2020
Aleksei Krasovskii: Holiday (Prazdnik, 2018), Olga N. TURYSHEVA, Kinokultura, 2019
Aleksei Krasovskii: Holiday (Prazdnik, 2019), Olga MESROPOVA, Kinokultura, 2019
Russie : La liberté de créer n'est pas à La Fête, Lucien JACQUES, Libération, 2019
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2024
- "Forbidden" contemporary Films, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2019

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