ZVISZHI
original title: ZVIZHI
2014, documentary, Russia, 51 min, color, DCP, Russian
absurd senior people visual anthropology
CATEGORIES : Documentary, Debut
DOCUMENTARY CATEGORIES : Social / Society / Human, Visual anthropology / Ethnography
COUNTRY: Russia
PRODUCTION : BUDGET : 1500 euro
CATEGORIES : Documentary, Debut
DOCUMENTARY CATEGORIES : Social / Society / Human, Visual anthropology / Ethnography
COUNTRY: Russia
PRODUCTION : BUDGET : 1500 euro
CREW
Director : Cinematographer : Olga Privolnova
SYNOPSIS
It takes 20 minutes on foot to get from the town of Nikola-Lenivets to the village of Zvizzhi. Nikola-Lenivets is the site of Arkhstoyaniye, a most fashionable festival of landscape objects. Zviszhi is the place where Val’ka, Lyudka, Zhen’ka and a sixty-year-old “dolly” Natasha live. Natasha lives with Valerka, a guy who served a term for murder, because he knows how to fix electric wires. Valerka prefers to pass his nights with Zhen’ka. Val’ka was once Lyudka’s kindergarten teacher; now they spend time together in a vegetable garden drinking denatured alcohol. “Fashionable” festival people and “degraded” Zviszhi people never heard about each other. But one day, village people decide to go visit their neighbors during the festival…