Garage folk

Movie
Original title	Garage folk
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2020
length	95 minutes
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Director	Natalija Yefimkina
script	Natalija Yefimkina
production	Dirk Decker, ; Andrea Schütte
camera	Axel Schneppat
cut	Nicole Fischer, ; Lucia Gerhardt, ; Markus Schmidt, ; Barbara Toennieshen

Garagenvolk is a German documentary by Natalija Yefimkina . The director's debut film will celebrate its world premiere in February 2020 at the Berlinale 2020 and will be screened there in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section .

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Garagenvolk is an episode film whose mosaic-like structure shows an image of today's Russia, creating a visual sociology .

In funny, bizarre, unpredictable scenes, the film tells tragic and at the same time cheerful stories from the independent life of Russian men who escape the mafia-like structures and the urge to regulate politics in niches and turn to individualism and consumption. The protagonists share their joys and worries and provide an insight into their exemplary, hidden reality. The film shows the numerous garages in the inhospitable north of post-Soviet Russia, which are the secret refuge of Russian men. From the outside, the tin huts don't look inviting, but the interiors have been redesigned beyond all the rules according to their own taste and with ingenuity into alternative living spaces, because the corrupt or regulating government has no power here. Scrap collector Ilja uses the garage as a production facility, Roman for his quail breeding, Pavel skilfully carves holy figures and Viktor has added four underground floors to his work over decades. This is where schnapps is distilled, illegal fish shops are operated, consumer goods are stored, and this is where you can withdraw with your loved one. Everything is here and everything seems possible. In this harsh area beyond the Arctic Circle , where a mining company is the only employer, the garage remains the last chance for self-fulfillment. The room becomes a vanishing point, a counterworld to everyday life without perspective, a place of longing and a dream world. The opposite worlds are the basis of existence for some, and they serve for recreation for others.

Production and sales

Natalija Yefimkinas debut film Garage nation was in the period from 2017 to 2020 by the fanfare film produced behind which the producer duo Andrea Schutte and Dirk Decker is. Your company not only relies on the established, but also offers new talents a platform. The film was produced with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media , the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funding and Creative Europe MEDIA . The BKM contributed 40,000 euros to the project costs, and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein film subsidy contributed 25,000 euros. Production manager was Jan Philip Lange .

Silke Heinz from MDR and Valérie Theobaldt from ARTE were responsible for the editing, Axel Schneppat for the image design and Nicole Fischer, Lucia Gerhardt, Markus Schmidt and Barbara Toennieshen for the editing . The sound design was done by Sebastian Reuter and Paul Wilke.

The film was shot in Murmansk , Kirovsk and Apatity on the Kola Peninsula in Russia . Shooting started on June 26, 2017, and ended on February 20, 2018; There were thirty days of shooting during this period.

Rise and Shine World Sales is responsible for world sales, and missingFILMs for distribution.

The film celebrates its world premiere at the Berlinale.

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The international title of the film is Garage People .

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Reviews

Those in charge of the Berlinale classified the film as a work that poses new questions in a world in which the concept of home is changing. He shows women who move the fate of the world in small and large contexts and have their own idea of home. He posed the question of whether hobby rooms as a projection surface for big dreams are an alternative to clocked life.