Life (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Life |
| Original title | Russian Жить , transcribed Zhit |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vasily Zigarev |
| script | Vasily Zigarev |
| production | Roman Borissewitsch, Alexander Kuschajew |
| music | Pavel Dodonov |
| camera | Alisher Khamidchodschayev |
| cut | Dasha Danilova |
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Life (original title: Russian Жить , English transcription Zhit ) is a Russian film drama by the director Vasily Sigarew from 2012. The episode film , which is divided into three different storylines, deals with death . In some cases, the circumstances of the death are dealt with, but the respective processes in the event of death are not shown. The productions mainly deal with the reactions of the bereaved.
action
The three individual episodes are dramaturgically intertwined, but do not show any overlaps.
- Grishka and Anton are on a train on the way back from their wedding. Anton is beaten up by a group of young men and later succumbs to his injuries in the hospital. Grishka struggles with her fate and experiences visions of her dead husband.
- The alcoholic Galja suffers from the death of her husband and has lost custody of her two young daughters due to neglect. While she is waiting for the girls to visit in the presence of a policewoman, they die in a traffic accident. Galja does not accept the death of the children and loses touch with reality.
- Little Artjom has to deal with the loss (suicide) of his father. He lives with his mother and her partner Igor. She reacts negatively to her son. He notices how his mother expresses her contempt for her ex-husband, Artyom's father, while sleeping with Igor.
In all three episodes, the dead are staged in surreal situations with the bereaved, with the deceased being marked by wounds or bandages. Galja has her dead children exhumed, drives them home on a sledge and treats their wounds. Grishka is treated by her dead husband after attempting suicide. Artyom is sitting on a bench next to his father.
The third storyline with Artyom and his father only becomes understandable towards the end of the film. The man who is humiliated in the first scene of the film (his bicycle is thrown into a basement), who then goes into the water and later goes to a weir in socks, is Artyom's father who ends his life.
The film ends with a scene in which Grishka is sitting alone in a bus stop.
criticism
According to the television station 3sat , director Vasily Sigarew “artfully interweaves three stories, all of which tell of existential loss and grief. ... Life is not just a film about dying, rather it shows what it means to live and love as a person with the certainty of death. "
The Internet portal Negativ comments: "To see how the bereaved can neither understand nor process the mystery of death, but rather imagine the dead as still present and thus live in an unreal fantasy world, is deeply sad."
Awards (selection)
The production won two awards at the Wiesbaden goEast film festival in 2012, including a. The golden lily for the best film . In the same year the production designer Lyudmila Djupina received an award for her work on this film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival . Several international nominations followed.
Web links
- Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ life. 3sat, accessed January 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Generation P (essimism) - about current Russian cinema - goEast 2012. NEGATIV, accessed on January 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Award (pdf file). (No longer available online.) Wiesbaden goEast, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; accessed on January 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Award (English). Thessaloniki International Film Festival, accessed January 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Awards IMDB (English). IMDB, accessed January 11, 2015 .
