Father's Letters
Synopsis
One winter day in 1934. Professor Vangengheim, meteorologist, Party member and victim of the Stalinist purges, is taken to the Gulag on the Solovki Islands. To protect his daughter Elya, he pretends to be on a voyage of exploration, sending her letters and herbariums from the islands.
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Director (1)
Alexey Evstigneev
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- Executive Producers : Igor Courtecuisse, Clémence Crépin Neel
- Editor : Catherine Aladenise
- Foreign producer : Yanna Buryak
- Line Producer : Marc Faye
- Voice : Dmitry Nazarov
- Production managers : Igor Courtecuisse, Clémence Crépin Neel
- Sound Editor : Vivien Roche
- Animation : Daria Dorofeeva, Iuliia Voitova, Salomé Chatelain, Dmitry Cherednichenko
- Foley artist : Jean-Baptiste Cornier
- Grader : Valentin Goguet-Chapuis
- Sound Mixer : Régis Diebold
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Family, Childhood, Politics
- Production language : Russian
- Coproducer countries : France (80.0%), Russia (20.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Russia)
- Production year : 2023
- Runtime : 12 min 10 seconds
- Visa number : 159.562
- Visa issue date : 29/11/2023
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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