Silent Souls

2010

75 mins

Directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko
96%
75%
Drama
Award Winner

Russian drama about a man who wishes to cremate his recently passed wife in the traditional custom of... More

Russian drama about a man who wishes to cremate his recently passed wife in the traditional custom of his land. Enlisting the help of a close friend the two men set off on a thousand mile journey to the river shore. Best Cinematography winner at Venice 2011.

"Mixing folk legend, ethnography, race memory and road-movie narrative, this ravishingly-shot story of a dead wife and the two significant men from her life who travel to the river shore where they will cremate her, detaches the places and people we meet from the here and now and pushes them into a suspended netherworld… One of the charming, surprising things about the film is that its elegiac, dreamlike tone is never upset by obvious scriptwriting temptations, even while scraps of backstory, and moments of male tension, are allowed to emerge..." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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Award winner: Best Cinematography and the FiPRESCI Prize winner at Venice Film Festival 2010.
Runtime: 75
Genre: Drama
Country of origin: Russia