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THE CHOICE

Igor Fedorov
RU, 2023, 77 Min

Collapse of the economic system – a country in a debt trap. A bank's telephone service operator sits in home office and has to deal with the existential fears of his customers. One of them puts a laser pointer on his chest, directly from the house across the street. Independently produced one-man chamber drama thriller from Russia, staged in a maximally gripping manner with minimal resources and thoroughly metaphorical.

#feature #horror #political

Sadov, the psychopath, needs money. He puts the telephone operator under pressure, knows what nonsense is written on his T-shirt, where his wife and child live, what leftover junk food is under his desk. The initial everyday cynicism in home office gives way to panic, the sadistic voice from his headset plays him like the snake plays the rabbit, anything is possible. There is no help from the anonymous threat from the window across the street – the boss doesn't want to change any password, the security keeps making stupid jokes as if nothing’s happening, while the red laser dot slowly moves from the forehead to the chest and back. Debut made on a mini-budget about the private apocalypse in a society in which the law no longer applies, people get their way through violence and cool poses and quick sayings are no longer of any use to get oneself out of the tricky situation.

Text: Bernd Buder

Drehbuch
Igor Fedorov
Kamera
Nikolay Pavlov
Ton
Gleb Beapoyasnyy
Schnitt
Yana Kharitonova
Ausstattung
Ekaterina Kireeva
Musik
Steven Fedos
Darsteller
Elijah Khodyrev
Produzent
Irina Nikitina
Produktion
Igor Fedorov (independent production)
Igor Fedorov

Igor Fedorov - By the age of 27, he had managed to work in various non-film areas and had travelled the world. In 2019, he did a filmmaking course at Moscow Film School and released his first short film, The Testament. He spent the next two years writing scripts for films of different genres. In 2021, he directed and produced his first feature film, The Choice, based on his own script.

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