BRAMA
THE GATEWAY
Trailer
The area around the nuclear reactor, which imploded in 1986, offers a borderline experience between the real world and a world inhabited by creatures from Ukrainian mythology as well as horror classics. In addition to entertaining moments and cinematographic quotations, the film also reveals a precise depiction of Ukrainian society: acute poverty, the arbitrariness of the rulers and failed state structures. The ephemeral world of the hermit Prisya seems to be more consistent and unanimous than the bitter reality. She has survived all the catastrophes that the twentieth century of her homeland has expected: famine, the Second World War and radioactive pollution. She still can pass on the knowledge inherited from her ancestors, but none of the offspring is able to take her place. DB
DCP | Farbe / Colour
Volodymyr Tykhy, Pavlo Arie
Slava Tsvetkov
Mihaylo Zakutskiy
Volodymyr Liubyi
Anton Baibakov
Irma Vitovska, Vitalina Bibliv, Yaroslav Fedorchuk, Dmytro Tuboltsev, Dmytro Yaroshenko
Bedlam Productions
Directory Films
Igor Savychenko
45A Nyzhnioyurkivska St
04080 Kyiv
Ukraine
+38 050 33 04 471
savychenko@directoryfilms.com
www.directoryfilms.com
Volodymyr Tykhy - born in 1971 in Chervonograd, USSR (today Ukraine). Director and producer. In 1997 he graduated from the Kyiv State Institute for Theatrical Art. Already during his studies he created some short films, RUSALONKA was by far the most successful. His feature film debut followed in 2001. He also made several TV and documentary films as well as the award-winning UKRAINE, GOODBYE! short film almanac.
RUSALONKA (1996, FFC 1997)
MYINYKY AVTOMOBILIV (2001)
ZELENA KOFTA (2013)
DIDOCHOK (2015, short)
BRANTCI (2015, doc)