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_UNDERSCORE: The Female Age
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1h 46m
BRAMA
Ukraine / USA
107 min. fiction
Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end – Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.
Directed by: Volodymyr Tykhyy
Written by: Pavlo Arie & Volodymyr Tykhyy
Produced by: Igor Savychenko, Marko Suprun, Volodymyr Tykhyy, Volodymyr Filippov, Dmytro Kozhema & Oleksii Moskalenko
Cinematography: Slava Tsvetkov
Editing: Ihor Kosenko
Original score: Anton Baibakov
Production design: Volodymyr Liubyi
Sound design: Mikhailo Zakutskyi
Costume design: Olena Gres
Make-up: Kateryna Strukova & Iryna Belina
Main cast: Irma Vitovska (Baba Prisa), Vitalina Bibliv (Slava), Yaroslav Fedorchuk (Vovchyk), Dmytro Yaroshenko (cop), Dmytro Tuboltsev (dad)
Production:
Directory Films
www.directoryfilms.com
World Sales:
Arthouse Traffic
https://arthousetraffic.com
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