Synopsis
In a small village in Belarus, grandma Sima does everything for the future of Vanya, her alcoholic son. Together with her only and good ally, the white goat Manya, she starts a war with her neighbour Glacha, who produces and sells vodka in the village.
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Actors (3)
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- Executive Producer : Films d'Altérité
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producers : Pablo Gleason, Magali Rocha Donnadieu
- Screenwriter : Daria Yurkevich
- Director of Photography : Yauheni Tsitko
- Assistant directors : Alexandra Romanovskaya, Tatsiana Kochan
- Editors : Daria Yurkevich, Yauheni Tsitko
- Sound recordists : Alexander Tytsiukha, Pavel Holiak
- Voice : Vera Tokarava, Valentina Zhukavets
- Assistant Operators : Snejana Barteneva, Ivan Mazgo
- Production manager : Daria Yurkevich
- Sound Editor : Viacheslav Kruk
- Production Designer : Dmitri Makhomet
- Sound mixers : Sergey Chuprov, Dimitri Karneychik
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Portrait
- Themes : Motherhood, Monde rural, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : Belarusian
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 15 min
- Production formats : Photographic camera
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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