Flooding ( fr. L'inondation ) - Russian-French film-drama directed by Igor Minaev . A screen version of the same story by Yevgeny Zamyatin .
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| Genre | drama, romance, crime, detective |
| Producer | Igor Minaev |
| Producer | Daniel Tuscany du Plantier Dmitry Sidorov Jerome Payard |
| Author script | Jacques benac Igor Minaev Bernard Stora |
| In the main cast | Isabelle Huppert Boris Nevzorov Svetlana Kryuchkova Maria Lipkina |
| Operator | Vladimir Pankov |
| Composer | Anatoly Dergachev |
| Duration | 99 min. |
| A country |  Russia  France |
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| Year | 1993 |
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The main role was played by French actress Isabelle Huppert [1] .
Content
Story
The action takes place in Petrograd in the 1920s. Sophia (Isabelle Huppert) dreams of becoming a mother, hoping that with the birth of a child, Trofim’s husband (Boris Nevzorov) will not leave her. However, to conceive the long-awaited baby woman does not succeed. Once in the house of the spouses a young neighbor, Ganka, appears, who has remained an orphan. She begins to cohabit with Trofim, and his interest in his wife is finally lost. Taking advantage of the flood occurred, Sophia gets rid of her rival. Everyone thinks that Ganka has run away from home. Meanwhile, Sophia becomes pregnant, and the relations of the spouses are getting better. Having given birth to a daughter, being in a fever , she tells how Hank was hacked to death with an ax.
Cast
- Isabelle Huppert - Sophia
- Boris Nevzorov - Trofim, fireman
- Svetlana Kryuchkova - Pelageya
- Maria Lipkina - Ganka
- Andrey Tolubeev - Andrey
- Natalya Egorova
Awards
- 1993 - Kinoshok film festival in Anapa [2] :
- special jury prize for cinematic culture (Igor Minaev);
- prize for the visual decision (artist Vladimir Murzin);
- prize for the best female role (Isabelle Huppert).
Criticism and feedback
The film was screened at the Locarno Film Festival in 1994. According to the testimony of film critic Andrei Plakhov , Locarno took the film as evidence of the high professionalism of Russian directing. The classic style, spectacular scenery and costumes, staged power and psychological play of actors were noted [3] . According to Plakhov, the director managed to recreate on the screen the emotional, cultural and architectural context of Petrograd in the 1920s. Russian actors (Boris Nevzorov stands out among them) play in exact accordance with the style of the picture and bring something “super” into it:
Dark forces inside a person, mysteriously correlated with historical and natural disasters, are still more of a Russian, “Dostoevsky” origin. Although Isabelle Huppert with her verified rational manner of the game did everything to fit into this context ” [3] .
Russian critics draw a parallel with another French version of Russian classical prose, with Valery Todorovsky’s “ Moscow Evenings ”. Both pictures are cool and stylish, but in “Flooding” there is more than what can be called “the logic of passion” [3] .
The reviewer Andrei Titov (“Kommersant”) believes that the film turned out to be absolutely French in style, and the participation of refined Isabelle Huppert does not add to him the Russian flavor [4] .
See also
- Beast coming out of the sea
Notes
- ↑ Isabelle Huppert Moscow . Kommersant (January 12, 1993). The appeal date is March 27, 2015.
- ↑ The film festival in Anapa is over . Kommersant (September 14, 1993). The appeal date is March 27, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Andrei Plakhov. The Locarno Film Festival opened. The sexual life of Russians and Belgians is interconnected . Kommersant (August 10, 1994). The appeal date is March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Echo of Anapa responded in Moscow . Kommersant (September 17, 1993). The appeal date is March 29, 2015.
Links
- "Flooding" in the Encyclopedia of the national cinema
- Dennis Grunes. Navodneniye / L'Inondation (Igor Minayev, 1994) // Wordpress.com, March 21, 2007