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94 min | The Netherlands | 35 mm
main programme
world premiere
credits
PROD: Studio Nieuwe Gronden, Ren� Scholten
SALES: Studio Nieuwe Gronden
SCENARIO: Rosemarie Blank
CAMERA: Martin Gresmann
EDITOR: Jan Wouter van Reijen
SOUND: Harold Jalving
CAST: Valary Kuchareschin, Boris Khovles, Isil Zabludowskij, Vladka Simac, Kostia Smirnov, Bert Luppes, Adrian Brine
screenings
30 saturday 20:00 Path� 1
01 monday 16:30 Venster 1
05 friday 14:00 Venster 4
06 saturday 14:45 Maastricht Path� 4
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The Russian journalist Alexei Petrov is laying on his bed in a shabby hotel room in Rotterdam. Exhausted and still wearing his overcoat. The hotel landlady hands him the phone.'A telephone call from Russia. Your son is waiting!' By the roadside facing the hotel a grey Mercedes parks. The journalist suspects this is no coincidence, because he is researching Russian freighters that have been impounded in the Port of Rotterdam and writes about trafficking in women. When he helped a Russian prostitute who appeald to him to get a forged passport, he became increasingly involved in murky affairs. The story is set in two cities. In Rotterdam we follow Alexei and in St Petersburg his 14-year-old son Pavel, who is worried about his father. Events in both cities run more or less parallel, until a startling shift in time becomes apparent. For Pavel, who is growing up, time passes rapidly, while for Alexei, who feels increasingly threatened, time stands still. Far from home, Alexei is lying motionless and apparently paralysed on the bed of his hotel room in Rotterdam. In St Petersburg the first snow falls. The latest film by scriptwriter and film-maker Rosemarie Blank tells fragments of a story and shows different perceptions of time.
Rosemarie Blank
Rosemarie Blank (1939, Schneidem�hl, Poland) attended art academy in Berlin, worked for some time as artist and studied sociology, psychology and education. She has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1978 as a scriptwriter, director editor and producer.
films
Christa, Lagerarbeiterin (1976), Overgang (1980), Leven met de belt (1982), La terra in due (1985), De mieren (1987, short), Transit Levantkade (1991-1992), Rit over de grens (1993-1994), Vaarwel Pavel/Farewell Pavel (1999)
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