Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Mausoleum

Lauri Randla

Estonia, 2015, 26 Min

Pathologist Aleksey and his assistant Sasha are tasked with embalming the body of Lenin. They labour in an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, with Stalin omnipresent and always watching them. Woe betide he who makes a mistake. A mistake that in fact is just around the corner.

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Moscow, 1936. Lenin's mausoleum is due to open and pathologist Aleksey, together with assistant Sasha, are working on the preservation of the body. This short film from Estonian director Lauri Randla is a bitter satire on the ubiquitous terror of the Stalin regime which knew no mercy, not even for its very own “Heroes of Socialist Labour”, living as they do (admittedly without any choice in the matter) in the most luxurious residential building in the whole of the Soviet Union. What greater proof could there be of the pair's “bourgeois” leanings? EG

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Lauri Randla

Kamera
Peter Salovaara

Ton
Jorma Kaulanen

Schnitt
Leo Liesvirta

Ausstattung
Juulia Jokinen

Musik
Lauri Randla

Darsteller
Victor Kotowicz von Lahnberg, Aleksandr Okunev, Sergei Furmanjuk, Ilja Nartov, Svetlana Dorošenko, Matti Onnismaa

Produzent
Peeter Urbla

Produktion
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Co-Produktion
Funny Films OY

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Lauri Randla - born 1981 in Tartu, USSR. In 2008, Randla, both director and screenwriter, graduated from the Aalto ELO Film School in Helsinki, Finland, in addition to which he holds two further degrees in directing. His award-winning short films have been screened at numerous film festivals. Currently he is working on his feature film debut.

Movies
TÄHÄN PÄIVÄÄN ASTI (2010, short)
CONVICT (2011, short)
3OHA - THE ZONE (2013, short)
VIHAAN RAKASTAA SUA (2013, short)
SILLAMÄE (2014, short)

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