THE BARRACKS / Barak
  • Direction: Valerij Ogorodnikov.
  • Screenplay: Viktor Petrov, Valerij Ogorodnikov.
  • Cinematography: Jury Klimenko.
  • Editing: Valerij Ogorodnikov.
  • Sound: Ali Gasan Zade.
  • Sets: Vera Zelinskaya, Viktor Ivanov.
  • Costumes: Galina Deeva.
  • Music: Gabriel Urbano Faure.
  • Cast: Nina Usatova, Natalia Yegorova, Leonid Yarmolnick, Evgeny Sidikhin, Andreas Dilschneider.
  • Producers: Valerij Ogorodnikov, Leonid Yarmolinck, Stanislav Archipov, Rolf Jaster.
  • Production: Filmcompany DAR, VGTRK (Russia), VIA Film (Germany).
  • 35mm Colour 110'
SYNOPSIS

Summer 1953 in Satka, a small town to the south of the Urals, somewhere between war-ravaged Russia and the gulags of Siberia. Olga, 23, sole survivor of a family wiped out in the siege of Leningrad, is the latest arrival at a communal ex-barracks, where she knows no one. Also there are: Alexei, a militiaman, who lives with his son Burka and his girlfriend Claudia; Jora, a Jew and victim of Stalin's purges; Friedrich, a former German soldier married to a Russian; Guerka, a drunken dove-breeder and former Nazi collaborator; and Polina, an overblown Ukrainian together with her mute companion, Karim the Tatar...

Valerij Ogorodnikov

Biography
He was born in the Urals, in 1951. He trained as a chemical engineer and then studied film at VGIK in Moscow. His directorial debut, The Burglar, won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival. Two more features followed. After a long spell in Germany, where he played the leading role in S. Solomun's Weltmeister, he returned to directing with The Barracks, which won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY (English titles)
1986 The Burglar
1989 Prishvin's Paper Eyes
1991 Experience of Infatuation Delirium
1999 The Barracks

FILM TITLE SCREENING THEATER DATE
THE BARRACKS A' CINE PROVLITA 1 Thursday 16/11, 22:30
THE BARRACKS B' CINE PROVLITA 1 Sunday 19/11, 17:30


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