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IN THE FOG (В ТУМАНЕ)
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Completed - RUSSIAN, GERMAN - Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

A film about an attempt to make a moral choice in an immoral situation.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2012 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2012 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2014 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Sergei LOZNITSA
Writer(s) : Sergei LOZNITSA
Cast : Vladimir SVIRSKI, Vlad ABASHIN, Sergei KOLESOV, Julia PERESILD, Nikita PEREMOTOVS, Kirill PETROV, Dmitrijs KOLOSOVS, Stepans BOGDANOVS

Producer(s) : Heino DECKERT (ma.ja.de Fiction), Joost DE VRIES (Lemming Film), Vilnis KALNAELLIS (RIJA FILMS)

Synopsis

Background: Belarus, 1942. The Nazi occupation is at its height.
A partisan war rages in the German hinterland. The brigades fight the occupying forces from their hideouts in the forests. They charge on German-occupied villages, blow up military transports, take revenge on traitors and collaborators.
An act of sabotage was committed near the farm where the railroad worker Suschenja has his dwellings. A train was blown up.
Suschenja had nothing to do with this, but he was arrested anyway, along with the saboteurs. The German officer leading the investigations has the partisans executed, but he lets Suschenja go free, punishing him this way to refuse collaboration with the Germans. It is a message to the partisans. Immediately, all talk about Suschenja's „treason“. The partisans Burov and Wojtik travel to Suschenja's farm, to revenge the death of their comrades.
Suschenja begs them not to kill him in front of his wife and his child.
The partisans lead their victim into the forest. On the way, they are ambushed. Suschenja and his would-be executor Burov, now deadly wounded, are left alone in the forest.
Now, Suschenja hopes for salvation. He believes that he may be able to convince the partisans of his innocence if he could just manage to bring the heavily wounded Burov into the partisan's camp. In the loneliness of the swampy forest, in a world without intruders and friends, where the line between treason and heroism, friend and foe, war and peace is so very thin, so very removed from any immediate understanding, Suschenja, a victim of adverse circumstances, fights for his right to live.

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY, LATVIA, NETHERLANDS, RUSSIA

AUSTRALIA SHARMILL FILMS
BELGIUM Jun 25, 2014 BRUNBRO ENTERTA
BRAZIL FILMES DA MOSTR
BRAZIL SAO PAULO INTER
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ESTONIA EESTI RAHVUSRIN
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MEXICO CINETECA NACION
NETHERLAND Dec 12, 2013 CONTACT FILM
POLAND CANAL+ CYFROWY
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ROMANIA VOODOO FILMS SR
SPAIN Mar 08, 2013 VERTIGO FILMS
TAIWAN FLASH FORWARD E
TAIWAN GREAT LEAP FORW
UNITED KIN Apr 26, 2013 NEW WAVE FILMS
USA MUBI, INC
USA STRAND RELEASIN

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Festivals and Awards

Festival de Cannes 2012 Competition
Tromso IFF 2013 Competition Program


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