In the Dark

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An elderly blind man weaves bags out of string in his apartment, to the sound of children playing outside; meanwhile, his pussycat is forever unraveling the balls of string he winds, but his hands never cease their work. At some point, the bags are ready, and so the blind man heads out onto the street to give them away – but no passer-by wants one, even though they are free. These are the bare bones that In the Dark comprises, but they prove more than enough to rend your soul to shreds. Occasionally, cinema needs no more than this to reveal great – usually unpleasant and therefore silenced – truths about the human condition. Existence, silence, action (here it is the hands that see, not the eyes), loneliness, and the real stripped of all embellishment, across 42 minutes of relentless veracity. Painful, but precious.
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Direction: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Script: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Cinematography: Alisher Khamidhodjaev, Anatoly Petriga
Editing: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Sound: Sergei Dvortsevoy, Tuomas Järnefelt
Producers: Sergei Dvortsevoy, Jane Balfour
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Russia, Finland
Production Year: 2004
Duration: 42'
Contact: Jane Balfour Services
Awards/Distinctions: Best Documentary – Festival dei Popoli 2004, Jameson Award – Lisbon IDFF 2004, Award of the Students – Kraków FF 2004

Sergei Dvortsevoy

Filmography

1995 Paradise (short)
1998 Bread Day
1999 Highway
2004 In the Dark
2008 Tulpan (fiction)
2018 Ayka (fiction)