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Jessica Hope WoodworthForgatókönyvíró:
Jessica Hope WoodworthOperatőr:
Virginie SurdejZeneszerző:
Teho TeardoSzereplők:
Jonas Smulders, Geraldine Chaplin, Jan Bijvoet, Sam Louwyck, Hal Yamanouchi, Valentin Ganev, Goua Robert Grovogui, Samvel Tadevosyan, Django SchrevensTartalmak(1)
Determined to do his utmost to protect his homeland from ever-imminent invasion, young Luka – a talented sniper – makes the lengthy trek from region 27 north to Fort Kairos, an outpost on the Steppe where the General and her council maintain guard against the pending onslaught from the North. In this desolate industrial complex, fear of an attack that never seems to come by an enemy that perhaps does not exist has morphed into a sort of serene paranoia. Military training has congealed, becoming a series of bizarre, animalistic rituals; punishment for minor infractions ranges from shovelling excrement to death by thirst. When at last there is dim evidence that the North is mobilising its troops, it becomes apparent that dogma now trumps truth, compassion and common sense. Geraldine Chaplin's twisted General is just one stand-out among uniformly excellent performances, which are underscored by threatening black-and-white cinematography and precisely unnerving sound design. Obliquely tinged with the conjured terrors of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and the rapturous brotherly love of Jean Genet's Un chant d'amour (1950), Jessica Woodworth's take on Dino Buzzati's much-lauded "The Tartar Steppe" crafts a fantasy of post-truth lunacy that perhaps reflects today more closely than is comfortable. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(több)Szereplők:
Geraldine Chaplin
Egyesült Államok
Legjobb filmek:
Rivaldafény (1952)
Doktor Zsivágó (1965)
Hollow Crown - Koronák harca (2012) (sorozat)
Jan Bijvoet
Belgium
Legjobb filmek:
A kígyó ölelése (2015)
Dirty Mind (2008)
Alabama és Monroe (2012)
Sam Louwyck
Belgium
Legjobb filmek:
Les Garçons sauvages (2017)
La Cinquième Saison (2012)
Cargo (2017)
Hal Yamanouchi
Japán
Legjobb filmek:
Dem Mörder verfallen - Eine Frau in Gefahr (1999) (Tévéfilm)
Út a szabadságba (2010)
Édes vízi élet (2004)
Valentin Ganev
Bulgária
Legjobb filmek:
Kelet-Nyugat (1999)
Vitathatatlan 3. (2010)
Út a szabadságba (2010)
Goua Robert Grovogui
Legjobb filmek:
Rafaël (2018)
Samvel Tadevosyan
Örményország
Legjobb filmek:
Csernobil 1986 (2020)
Django Schrevens
Legjobb filmek:
La Cinquième Saison (2012)
Lola (2019)