Section: Youth Film U18 Competition

The Dream is Gone

The Dream is Gone

Maria Batova
Russian Federation, 2021, 91 Min

War trauma meets young rebellion. Alyona, 18, confronts her father, a war veteran, with his and Russia's wartime past. He doesn't even know that he has a daughter.

FSK12

In the midst of an enchanted swamp landscape, Alyona surprises her biological father, who knew nothing about her. He lives his life in sparse simplicity. He did not choose this isolation by chance. The veteran returned from the First Chechen War severely traumatised. But Alyona also has a terrible childhood behind her and is now on a confrontational course. Embedded in Russia's mystical natural worlds, the film uses impressive images to shed light on the consequences of war - for those who have to fight it out on the front lines and for those who stay behind. No matter what their origins. Moreover, Maria Batova manages with great empathy to tell of Alyona's sense of a lost youth and to develop a story about understanding and forgiveness that achieves great things in small ways.

Text: Joshua Jádi

 

The film will be shown in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.

Drehbuch
Maria Batova
Kamera
Vladislav Politik
Ton
Anna Filatova
Schnitt
Maria Batova, Ekaterina Lunina
Ausstattung
Angelika Kremenetskaya
Musik
Larisa Shibert
Darsteller
Anastasia Samylova
Alexander Zamuraev
Produzent
Maria Batova
Maria Batova

Maria Batova - was born in 1993 in Moscow. In 2017, she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography VGIK (faculty of screenwriting and film studies). Currently, she is working as a lecturer for literature and drama.

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