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Odnazy v provintsii (2008) is a Russian movie. Katya Shagalova has directed this movie. Yuliya Peresild,Elvira Bolgova,Aleksandr Golubev,Nataliya Soldatova are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Odnazy v provintsii (2008) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager, Nastia (Yulia Peresild) was the star of a popular television series, but now her career is in decline and her father, an officer in the Russian army, has kicked her out of the house. Nastia travels to Uletova, a decaying industrial town, and tries to persuade her sister Vera (Elvira Bolgova) to take her in. While Vera has had her own run-ins with her father, her husband Koyla (Aleksandr Golubev) hates Nastia, and with good reason. Uletova is a city that's a shadow of its former self, work is hard to come by and Koyla and his former Army buddies Kim (Aidys Shoigu), Misha (Leonid Bichevin) and Tasoev (Aleksandr Skotnikov) have little to do but get drunk and pick fights with the skinhead gangs who patrol the streets. In a blighted community with little future, Koyla, Vera and their friends are caught in a tangled web of sexual gamesmanship and ...
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Odnazy v provintsii (2008) Reviews
Social drama in contemporary Russia
A small town in the provinces. A superficially predictable flow of events. Nastya, a young TV actress comes to the town to visit her sister and hide from her declining popularity. Her sister, Vera, does not seemed overjoyed with the visit, because of lingering negative feelings linked to a past conflict between Nastya and her brother-in-law. We are then shown a succession of episodes illustrating the hidden personal tensions that rule the behaviour of the town's youths, their friendship and betrayals, alcohol, violence, pointlessness and all. Several of the characters, particularly the two sisters, are quite well developed, with an interesting psychological evolution throughout the film. Others are sketchier. In any case, an interesting study of some female and male roles in contemporary Russia. Not that all Russian towns have that atmosphere, but stillÂ…, and not just in Russia. This film really works, and seems to achieve what it set out to. I am afraid that was not to depict the lovelier side of the country. For that, see other films. Anyway, keep such films coming!