Silent Souls (2010) Ovsyanki (original title)

Director:

Aleksey Fedorchenko

Writer:

Denis Osokin

Release Date:

3 November 2010 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

In this land there are only two gods: love and water.

Plot:

Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon. |

Plot Keywords:

Dead Body | Water | One Word Title | Chubby Woman | Typewriter

Awards:

9 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Yuliya Aug	...	Tanya
Olga Dobrina	...	Yulya
Larisa Domaskina
Viktor Gerrat
Olga Gireva	...	Seller in the shop
Artem Habibulin
Vyacheslav Melechov	...	Bird's seller
Igor Sergeev	...	Aist
Leisan Sitdikova	...	Rimma
Viktor Sukhorukov	...	Vesa
Yuriy Tsurilo	...	Miron
Ivan Tushin	...	Little Aist
Yulia Tushina	...	Aist's mother
Sergey Yarmolyuk	...	STSI Inspector

Directed by
Aleksey Fedorchenko

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Denis Osokin

Produced by
Igor Mishin	....	producer
Meri Nazari	....	producer

Original Music by
Andrei Karasyov

Cinematography by
Mikhail Krichman

Film Editing by
Sergey Ivanov

Production Design by
Andrey Ponkratov

Costume Design by
Anna Bartuli

Sound Department
Romain Drouillon	....	french dubbing mixer
Balzhi Liza	....	foley artist
Konstantin Zalesskiy	....	additional re-recording mixer

Distributors

• Film Kino Text (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Memento Films (2010) (France) (theatrical)
• Shadow Distribution (2011) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• trigon-film (2010) (Switzerland) (theatrical) (all regions)
• Cinemax (2011) (Hungary) (TV)
• Film1 (2011) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• trigon-film (2011) (Switzerland) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Ovsyanki" - Russia (original title)

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:R21

Filming Locations:

Naberezhnaya Fedorovskogo, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

People have forgotten their ancient "sacred words" and their psyche is constantly changing, but there are moments that remind us who we are and who we once were.

I saw this film 8 hours ago on a big screen and I'm still spelled.

The camera work was very precise and poetic just as the structure of the story line and acting. This movie is very slow, yet very intense. Every scene generates so much thought in the viewer and leaves room for imagination, so that after the first few scenes my mind was swinging in the shamanic rhythm of the movie. I actually saw some older people lightly dandling themselves in that rhythm.

It's much more than just a story of a nation that is disappearing. It is a story of all the human culture and the mortality of it. The mortality of our beloved paradigms. Yet this film looked at life from the brighter side. Everything disappears, but so what? Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost.