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Completed - RUSSIAN, FRENCH - First film - 82 minutes

Log Line

They came to France from Russia. Lucia and her six year-old daughter Marussia are constantly on the move, from one welfare facility to another, from one man to another, searching for a place to spend the night, for a place to call home, running from each other and finally finding each other…

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2012 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2013 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : Eva PERVOLOVICI
Writer(s) : Monica STAN, Eva PERVOLOVICI
Cast : Dinara DROUKAROVA, Marie-Isabelle SHTEYNMAN, Georges BABLUANI, Dounia SICHOV, Sharunas BARTAS, Denis LAVANT, Madalina CONSTANTIN

Producer(s) : Janja KRALJ (KinoElektron), Sergey SELYANOV (CTB Film Company), Konstantin BOJANOV, Derk-Jan WARRINK (Lemming Films), Remco MASTWIJK (Filmmore)

Synopsis

Lucia, a Russian mother, and her 6 year-old daughter, Marussia, find themselves living on the streets of Paris. Not having a stable house, they sleep wherever they can – a night at a Russian priest’s, another in a welfare facility, and even in a 4 star hotel. They live each day as if it were the day that could change their life, meeting different kinds of people, wandering aimlessly and waiting for something wonderful to happen to them. As their situation is not getting any better and they end up sleeping under a bridge, the Russian community decides to buy them a ticket back to Russia. Marussia revolts against her mother and runs away. She doesn’t want to go back. And at the same time she wants to have a real childhood. What kind of decision is her mother ready to make?

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE, RUSSIA

Financing plan : CTB FIlms Company - Sergey Selyanov
Konstantin Bojanov
Derk-Jan Warrink (co-producer)
Filmmore, Netherlands (co-producer)
Rendez-Vous Pictures, France (world sales)


Start of shooting : December 2011

FRANCE Jan 21, 2015 HEVADIS FILMS
FRANCE RE:VOIR


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