17 August (0+)
Russia, Finland, Poland, 2009, colour, 62 min.
Director: Alexander Gutman
Director: Alexander Gutman
The first prison in Russia for people sentenced to life terms. A single cell. «Prisoner Boris Bezotechestvo. Life sentence. Article 102. Triple murder». He is talking to God who is indifferent to his destiny. He prays, but he does not trust. His words fill up the air of the cell. He talks and listens to himself. The space of the cell swallows him up. His world consists of four walls and the view from the window. The prison physically throws the prisoner into the Time. A long chain of days and nights given to him, after which comes «hell» or «heaven».
Alexander Gutman
Alexander Gutman
was born in1945. Graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1968) and VGIK (1978). Director, scriptwriter and cameraman since 1971. Currently lives in St. Petersburg.
FILMOGRAPHY
«The Russians are gone» (1991); «1244… 1245… 1246…» (1993); «The Clock History: From Vitebsk to This Day» (1995); «A Body Sans Head Or the Bodybuilding» (1997); «Dave Brubeck. Back to Moscow» (1998); «For Three days and Never Again» (1999); «Vinton Marsalis in Russia» (2000); «A Journey to Youth» (2001); «The Frescoes» (2002); «Sunny Side of the Highway», «Jewish Happiness», «Life Space» (2005); «Scythian Suite», «Boris Eifman. Ballet Rehearsal», «Fantasy Reflection» (2006); «17 August» (2008).
Russia, Finland, Poland, 2009, colour, 62 min.
Director: Alexander Gutman
Director: Alexander Gutman
The first prison in Russia for people sentenced to life terms. A single cell. «Prisoner Boris Bezotechestvo. Life sentence. Article 102. Triple murder». He is talking to God who is indifferent to his destiny. He prays, but he does not trust. His words fill up the air of the cell. He talks and listens to himself. The space of the cell swallows him up. His world consists of four walls and the view from the window. The prison physically throws the prisoner into the Time. A long chain of days and nights given to him, after which comes «hell» or «heaven».