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Sashenka

original title: Sashenka

2022, 130 min., black & white, Ukrainian

CATEGORIES : Thriller, Criminal Drama
COUNTRY: Ukraine
PRODUCTION : BUDGET : -

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

CAST

Milena Kompaniiets, Dmitry Orlov, Dmitryi Nezhelskyi, Oxana Burlay-Piterova, Viktor Rybchinskiy

CREW

Director : Screenplay : Olexandr Zhovna
Cinematographer : Sergey Kolbinev
Producers : Olexandr Zhovna, Evgeny Sivkov
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COMMENTS

FESTIVALS: Duhok International Film Festival 2023, FilmFestival Cottbus 2023, Odesa IFF 2023, NEISSE Filmfestival 2023, FANTASPORTO (Competition) 2023, Noir in Festival 2022, PÖFF/ Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Official Selection – Competition, World Premiere) 2022

SYNOPSIS

IF MY BODY IS NOT MINE,  WHERE WILL MY SOUL FALL?

A shocking murder that shook Soviet society in the seventies and exposed the reverse side of the Soviet morality.

In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, the fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother’s pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka as a girl, dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations.