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CELESTIAL WIVES OF THE MEADOW MARI (NEBESNIE ZHENY LUGOVYKH MARI)
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Completed - Other, RUSSIAN - Erotic, Comedy, Fantasy - 106 minutes

Log Line

It is a kind of Decameron of Mari, a mysterious and weird ancient ethnicity which for ages lives on grasslands of Russia.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2013 (Premiere)
  • Toronto 2013 (Screening)
  • Toronto 2014 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2023 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO ("OVSYANKI" ("SILENT SOULS"); "PERVYE NA LUNE")
Writer(s) : Denis OSOKIN ("OVSYANKI" ("SILENT SOULS") BY ALEKSEY FEDORCHENKO
Cast : Julia AUG ("BULLET COLLECTOR" BY ALEKSANDR VARTANOV; "SILENT SOULS" BY ALEKSEY FEDORCHENKO), Vasiliy DOMRACHEV, Daria EKAMASOVA, Olga DOBRINA, Yana TROYANOVA, Olga DEGTYAROVA, Alexandr IVASHKEVICH, Yana SEXTE

Producer(s) : Dmitry VOROBYEV (29th February, Ltd. ), Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (29th February, Ltd.), Mikhail SHCHUKIN (Kenpo-Kaliy Company), Leonid LEBEDEV (Red Arrow Film Company)

Synopsis

Russia is a very complex country. Because this land is considered to be their own by 180 peoples, not one, as in Latvia or Poland. Finno-Ugric peoples - natives of central Russia. There are now the most churches and monasteries. Meadow Mari - one of the largest Finno-Ugric peoples, and the only ones who keep the communal prayer in the groves, naive honoring priests-karts. Their sacred mountain blew, groves were cut down - but very quickly the authorities realized that it is dangerous to life...
Celestial brides and wives of the Meadow Mari are indistinguishable from earthly wives.
This is a film-pattern, a film-calendar. 22 short stories about women of Mari. A kind of Mari Decameron.

Market status

  • CAN
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Production

Country(ies) : RUSSIA

Start of shooting : September 2011

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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013 Vanguard


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