Directed by:
Олег ПогодинCinematography:
Antoine Vivas DenisovCast:
Sergey Garmash, Богдан Ступка, Yekaterina Rednikova, Vladimir Epifantsev, Иван Добронравов, Pyotr Zaychenko, Gleb Podgorodinskiy, Larisa MalevannajaPlots(1)
Arriving for a family gathering on a sprawling estate in the middle of the steppe, errant son Viktor is reunited with his large family whom he hasn’t seen for twenty-five years. Although unaware of the fact, Viktor has been followed by a group of men in suits who start harassing those assembled for the gathering. With danger lurking outside, the irascible temper of certain family members becomes the least of their problems. If we try to confront our own history, events might catch up with us too fast. By turns circumspect and poetic, this nevertheless oppressive film draws on elegiac nuances to capture the mixed fortunes of this extended lineage, which has experienced all manner of hardships. It attempts the kind of reconciliation with the past familiar from the work of Otar Iosseliani, yet one cannot deny its sweeping, powerful images as embodied in the Eastern European cinema of Nikita Mikhalkov or Timur Bekmambetov. The director was inspired by a childhood spent in the steppe region along the river Don, and also by Westerns, whose sense of inevitability he projected into his film. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Sergey Garmash](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/250/162250884_df3c1e.jpg)
Sergey Garmash
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
The Excursionist (2013)
![Богдан Ступка](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/812/157812483_251a8a.jpg)
Богдан Ступка
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
With Fire and Sword (1999)
East/West (1999)
![Yekaterina Rednikova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/958/161958542_3eaf4a.jpg)
Yekaterina Rednikova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Thief (1997)
The Gift to Stalin (2008)
The Last Frontier (2020)
![Vladimir Epifantsev](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/294/158294302_49c043.jpg)
Vladimir Epifantsev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
Fartovyj (2006)
Antikiller 2: Antiterror (2003)
![Иван Добронравов](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/117/159/117159932_60c331.jpg)
Иван Добронравов
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Return (2003)
Mamy (2012)
Buy Me (2018)
![Pyotr Zaychenko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/640/158640198_37d977.jpg)
Pyotr Zaychenko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Siberia, Monamour (2011)
Lost In Siberia (1991)
Taksi-Blyuz (1990)
![Gleb Podgorodinskiy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/161/159161958_d27d48.jpg)
Gleb Podgorodinskiy
Soviet Union
![Larisa Malevannaja](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/079/166079897_9602a7.jpg)
Larisa Malevannaja
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Idiot (2003) (series)
The Legend of Till Ullenspiegel (1976)
Intergirl (1989)