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Va’d’da. Toll-houses
Vad’d’a. Мытарства
Premiere: Far eastern premiere
Production country: Russia
Year of production: 2023
Length: 61 min.
Rating (age category): 16+
Film-category (genre): Documentary, ethnographic research
Director: Nikita Dobrynin
Producer: Natalia Smagina
Screenwriter: Nikita Dobrynin
Composer: Vigdisje Verhees
DOP: Kirill Dimov
Editor: Nikita Dobrynin
Sound director: Igor Gubarev
Production company: Non-profit Foundation for the Support of Cinema "Example of Intonation" (Alexander Sokurov Foundation)
Production country: Russia
Year of production: 2023
Length: 61 min.
Rating (age category): 16+
Film-category (genre): Documentary, ethnographic research
Director: Nikita Dobrynin
Producer: Natalia Smagina
Screenwriter: Nikita Dobrynin
Composer: Vigdisje Verhees
DOP: Kirill Dimov
Editor: Nikita Dobrynin
Sound director: Igor Gubarev
Production company: Non-profit Foundation for the Support of Cinema "Example of Intonation" (Alexander Sokurov Foundation)
The film was shot in 2021 near Luzhitcy village. Exactly in that period of time natural and social landscape in that area began to change drastically because of grandiose industrial building process. The situation exceedingly affects the people of Va`d`da, whose history spans through thousands of years; they survived wars, revolutions and Stalin’s rule, and yet, they face another challenge in the XXI century.
Selected festival history
2023:
- International Festival of Film Debuts «Spirit of Fire» (Russia Silver rose award for the best work with the music)
- II International Film Festival of debut films of the Eurasian continent "One Sixth" (participant of the documentary section)
- Lendoc Film Festival (Best Documentary film)
- Example of intonation international film festival (participant)
- 17th German International Ethnographic Film Festival (participant)
- Nikita DobryninDIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Nikita Dobrynin was born in Irkutsk, lived there until he was thirty, reborn in St. Petersburg.
DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 – It’s all wind
2021 – Sasha
2021 – Signals
2020 – Winner