HOME – Happy People IV

COUNTRIES: USA, France
PRODUCTION :

• Dmitry Vasyukov Production

BUDGET : 630 000 $

CAST

Praskovya Golitsyn, Catherine Golitsyn, Michael Golitsyn, Alexey Golitsyn

CREW

Director :

• Dmitry Vasyukov

Screenplay : Alexey Poyarkov
Cinematographer : Yuri Orlov
Producers : Andrey Novicky

COMMENTS

DIRECTOR’S NOTES: I have always been fascinated with the dichotomy present in rural life – the freedom found not despite, but because of, the rigors found in a subsistence lifestyle. My ground breaking documentary Happy People – A year in the Taiga – led me to Alaska. There I met a princess of Russia, and three generations of her family who had spent their lives fleeing authorities across the globe. In their history, despite tragedy and loss, I found the core of the stories that inspire me most – the fleeting, elusive things we yearn for but cannot always describe. It could be freedom, simplicity, or love. But here, ultimately, it was home.

SYNOPSIS

Criminals, who haven’t broken the Law.

Recluses who seek people out.

Patriots who’ve never seen their Homeland.

The story of a family of aristocrats: three generations, two continents, one HOME.

Home is the story of four generations of a family of Russian Americans, descendants of the Golitsyns, a distinguished princely family. After fleeing Russia, they made their way to France, and from there to the United States. For more than two decades now they have lived in Alaska. This former Russian territory in some mysterious way provides a link if not to their native country, then to their Fatherland, which none of them has ever seen. In its wanderings this large family has not preserved material treasures, but rather their nobility and dignity — the foundation upon which their Home was built.