Freedom is a paradise

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Movie
German title Freedom is a paradise
Original title С.Э.Р. - Свобода это рай
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1990
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sergei Bodrov
script Sergei Bodrov
music Alexander Raskatov
camera Yuri Schirtladze
cut Valentina Kulagina
occupation

Freedom is a paradise (Russian Original title: С.Э.Р. - Свобода это рай , SER - Swoboda eto raj ) is a Soviet film director Sergei Bodrov from the year 1990 . The film from the perestroika era tells, in road movie style, the search of a boy for his unknown father. He was awarded prizes at the Berlinale and the World Film Festival .

action

The 13-year-old half-orphan Sascha is housed in a home for the difficult-to - educate in Alma-Ata ( Kazakh SSR ). He breaks out of the home several times to look for his unknown father, but is always picked up and brought back to his home. On an attempt to escape, however, he reaches Arkhangelsk , where he penetrates to the labor camp where his father ekes out his life. The camp commandant finally allows Sascha to spend a night with his father before he is brought back to the home again the following morning.

The film title refers to the motto Freedom is a paradise , which Sascha like many other prison inmates abbreviated to С.Э.Р. tattooed on his hand.

background

The 76 minute film was made as a 35mm film . The production of the film was carried out by the film company Mosfilm ( Ritm working group ). The film distribution in Germany took over the film publishing house of the authors , in the USA Award Films International .

reception

Reinhard Kleber wrote that the "cinema parable" shows "a Soviet Union which, despite the visible presence of [...] Mikhail Gorbachev [...] is still shaped by the old Stalinist structures", as well as "a relentless picture of Soviet reality", where humanity can be found “almost exclusively on the side of the common people”. Kleber emphasizes the straightforward, taciturn narrative Badrows. A film review for film-dienst described the work as “short, concentrated and precise”, Wolfram Schütte described it as “almost as laconic as the work of the Finn Aki Kaurismäki ”. epd-Film emphasized the portrayal of the “general social de-solidarization” in freedom is a paradise .

Freedom is a paradise , according to Adele Marie Barker, is "one of the many" perestroika films that are about crime and gulags. Sebastian Feldmann ( Rheinische Post ) described the film as a "masterpiece", "a wonderful film [...] living entirely from the gestures of people and images, not from the language that is known to be deceptive [...]. A sign of the powerfully reawakening film art ”.

Awards

World Film Festival 1989
  • Grand Prix des Amériques
Berlin International Film Festival 1990
Nika 1990

literature

  • Adele Marie Barker: Consuming Russia. Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev . Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN 0822323133 . P. 352
  • Anna M. Lawton: Kinoglasnost. Soviet Cinema in our Time . CUP Archives, 1992. ISBN 0521388147 ; P. 183f

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