Summary: AUDIO (LANGUAGE): RUSSIAN DD 5.1; SUBTITLES: NO SUBTITLES. Zone 5. Parable, Drama, Nikola-film, Russia, 2003, 97 min. A small family, father and son, lives in a rooftop apartment of an old house. The father is a retired Air Force pilot. Long ago, when he was attending a school for air cadets, he met his first, and only, love , a girl who became his wife and bore him a son. His wife had died young. His son's physical features constantly remind the father of his wife, he doesn't separate his son from the love he hasn't overcome , that is his bond to his beloved. Thus, the father cannot imagine his life without his son, and the son deeply and loyally loves his father. Their love is almost of mythological nature and scale. It cannot happen in real life, it is the collision of a fairy tale? Alexander Sokurov's film "Father and Son" is the second part of the conceived trilogy about the drama of natural human relationships. Awards: FIPRESCI Award at the 56th Cannes International Film Festival (2003); Special Event of the 14th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (2003) in Sochi; Participant in the competition program of the 11th "Festival of Festivals" in St. Petersburg (2003) (Best Actor Award to the lead actors Andrei Shchetinin and Alexei Neymyshev); Special Event of the 11th "Window to Europe" Festival (2003) in Vyborg; Participant in the 1st International Film Festival of ATP countries "Pacific Meridian" in Vladivostok (2003). Script: Sergey Potepalov. Camera: Alexander Burov. Music by: Andrei Sigle. Director: Alexander Sokurov. Cast: Andrei Shchetinin, Alexei Neymyshev, Alexander Razbash, Fyodor Lavrov, Marina Zasukhina.
Father And Son
(2003)
Russia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands
