Directed by : Sergei LOZNITSA
Year of production : 2012 Country : GERMANY, RUSSIA, LATVIA, NETHERLANDS, BELARUS Length : 127 minutes
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign.
A train is derailed not far from the village, where Sushenya, a rail worker, lives with his family. Innocent Sushenya is arrested with a group of saboteurs, but the German officer makes a decision not to hang him with the others and sets him free. Rumours of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly, and partisans Burov and Voitik arrive from the forest to get revenge.
As the partisans lead their victim through the forest, they are ambushed, and Sushenya finds himself one-to-one with his wounded enemy.
Deep in an ancient forest, where there are neither friends nor enemies, and where the line between treason and heroism disappears, Sushenya is forced to make
Sergei LOZNITSA - Director
Oleg MUTU - Cinematography
Kirill SHUVALOV - Set decorator
Danielius KOKANAUSKIS - Film Editor
Vladimir GOLOVNITSKI - Sound
Sergei LOZNITSA - Script / Dialogue
Vladimir SVIRSKI - Souchénia
Vlad ABASHIN - Bourov
Sergeï KOLESOV - Voïtik
Vlad IVANOV - Le Commandant en chef
Julia PERESILD - Anelia
Nikita PERETOMOVS - Gricha
Nadezhda MARKINA - La mère de Bourov
Photo du Film
Press Conference "V Tumane"
Production
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