Beanpole | Dylda | Haifa 40th International Film Festival

The Slow, ferocious, and extraordinary second film from blazing 27-year-old Russian talent Kantemir Balagov. You quite often have to remind yourself to breathe.

Variety

Archive - Festival 35
Director: Kantemir Balagov
Russia 2019
130 minutes
Russian
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Russia's Academy Award Nominee

In the post-siege ruins of 1945 Leningrad, Iya, the ‘beanpole’ of the title, is a nurse at a hospital for patients suffering from wartime injuries. She has formed a close friendship with Masha, and has been looking after her young son while Masha was serving in the Red Army. Circumstances will have traumatic repercussions and irredeemably shape their future.

Winner of the Fipresci Prize and Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival, the masterful and moving Beanpole is a loose adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich's The Unwomanly Face of War. Russia's Academy Award Nominee.

Filmography: Closeness (2017).

Director Kantemir Balagov
Production Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov
Script Kantemir Balagov, Alexander Terekhov
Cinematography Ksenia Sereda
Editing Igor Litoninskiy
Music Evgueni Galperine
Festivals Cannes (Un Certain Regard - Best Director Award, Fipresci Prize), Toronto
Actors Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.