Ohjaus:
Jessica Hope WoodworthKäsikirjoitus:
Jessica Hope WoodworthKuvaus:
Virginie SurdejSävellys:
Teho TeardoNäyttelijät:
Jonas Smulders, Geraldine Chaplin, Jan Bijvoet, Sam Louwyck, Hal Yamanouchi, Valentin Ganev, Goua Robert Grovogui, Samvel Tadevosyan (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(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)
(lisää)Näyttelijät
Geraldine Chaplin
Yhdysvallat
Parhaat elokuvat:
Parrasvalot (1952)
Tohtori Živago (1965)
Ontto kruunu (2012) (sarja)
Jan Bijvoet
Belgia
Parhaat elokuvat:
El abrazo de la serpiente (2015)
Dirty Mind (2008)
Broken Circle Breakdown, The (2012)
Sam Louwyck
Belgia
Parhaat elokuvat:
Les Garçons sauvages (2017)
La Cinquième Saison (2012)
Cargo (2017)
Hal Yamanouchi
Japani
Parhaat elokuvat:
Dem Mörder verfallen - Eine Frau in Gefahr (1999) (TV elokuva)
The Way Back (2010)
Steve Zissoun vedenalainen maailma (2004)
Valentin Ganev
Bulgaria
Parhaat elokuvat:
Est-Ouest (1999)
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
The Way Back (2010)
Goua Robert Grovogui
Parhaat elokuvat:
Rafaël (2018)
Samvel Tadevosyan
Armenia
Parhaat elokuvat:
Černobyl (2020)
Django Schrevens
Parhaat elokuvat:
La Cinquième Saison (2012)
Lola vers la mer (2019)