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6.5/10   1,032 votes
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Director:
Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer:
Sergei Potepalov (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
21 January 2004 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Whisper your fears to running water . . .
Plot:
Father (Andrej Shetinin) and Son (Alexei Nejmyshev) live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
For art-house viewers only - but intriguing and rather beautiful despite its slow pace more

Cast

  (in credits order)
Andrei Shchetinin ... Father
Aleksei Nejmyshev ... Aleksei, the Son
Aleksandr Razbash ... Sasha
Fyodor Lavrov ... Fyodor
Marina Zasukhina ... Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anna Aleksakhina
Jaime Freitas
João Gonçalves
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Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Sergei Potepalov  writer

Produced by
Fernando Centeio .... line producer
Roberto Cicutto .... co-producer
Igor Kalenov .... co-producer
Igor Kalyonov .... producer
Thomas Kufus .... producer
Luigi Musini .... co-producer
Hengameh Panahi .... co-producer
Claudia Spiller .... line producer
Els Vandevorst .... co-producer
Ineke van Wierst .... co-producer
 
Cinematography by
Aleksandr Burov 
 
Production Design by
Natalya Kochergina 
 
Production Management
Conny Neetenbeek .... post-production manager
Joana Synek .... production manager
 
Sound Department
Sergei Moshkov .... sound
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Paulo Jorge Barata .... second assistant camera
Rolf Rosendahl .... assistant camera
 
Other crew
Jaime Freitas .... production assistant
Susana Marques .... production assistant
 
Thanks
Andrey Deryabin .... special thanks
Michael Schmid-Ospach .... thanks
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Отец и сын (Russia)
Father and Son (International: English title)
Vater und Sohn (Germany)
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Runtime:
France:83 min (Cannes Film Festival) | Russia:97 min | USA:82 min (Wellspring DVD)
Language:
Russian
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Filming Locations:
Lisbon, Portugal more

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Movie Connections:
Follows Mat i syn (1997) more

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14 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
For art-house viewers only - but intriguing and rather beautiful despite its slow pace, 9 December 2004
6/10
Author: Colette Corr from Melbourne, Australia

The second film in the trilogy director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) began with Mother and Son (1996) focuses on the obsessive, intimate love between a youthful father and his teenage son. They play sport and tousle together, confide in and are everything to each other – but now the son is close to adulthood, it's time to separate.

Apparently Sokurov intended to show that the ambivalence of their lover-like relationship is due to the father's unresolved feelings for his dead wife, but the film is not entirely successful in communicating that. Their closeness inspires jealousy in the son's girlfriend, a neighbour and a visitor, yet the homo eroticism in Father and Son is not just between them, but in the way the camera views other men, particularly soldiers. Although this allegedly unintentional subtext could offend, it does not, due to the hyper-real, mythic tone. The slow pace of the film is offset by a pervasive, abstract sensuality, emphasised by Alexander Burov's beautiful cinematography. Whispering kettles and dripping taps form an industrial ambiance that helps to slow time down and frame the background – a dark quiet house that is as insular as this familial relationship.

Although Father and Son will frustrate those seeking a more plot-driven film, it is memorable. The indefinable closeness between the two men is never threatening. It merely emphasises the similarity between what philosopher CS Lewis described as the Four Loves – storage (familial love), love between friends (philia), eros (sexual love) and agape (spiritual love).

***/***** stars.

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