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Director : Viatcheslav Zlatopolsky
Script : Alexey Timm
Photography : Radik Askarov
Editor : Zhanna Berger
Cast : Polina Kutepova, Denik Neverov, Valerij Barinov, Elena Morozova, Alexander Ilyin, Alexey Zavyalov
Russia, 106 min.
Official description of the film:
House of the Wind
"An ordinary woman, Taisya Levshina -- a yard cleaner at a children's infectious diseases hospital -- gets bad news: her son, who had gone missing on the violence-ridden southern Russian border, ten years earlier, and for whom she had never given up hope of finding alive, has been confirmed dead. Her hopes dashed and to fill the painful cavity in her soul, Taya takes -- practically kidnaps -- from the hospital, a seven-year old Asian child Timur, who, considering all his diagnoses and medical history, is doomed to a premature demise."
"Two years ago Alexei Timm, the screenwriter, told me that in some newspaper he had read an amazing story: a grandmother had brought her grandson suffering from AIDS to a monastery, they lived there for a long time, and prayed, and eventually the boy recovered. I immediately suggested to Alexei that we do a movie about this, and it turned out that he had already written the script. We only had to find the money. The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture, but there was this condition -- a debutant should make this movie. I sent the script to Slava Zlatopolsky. And I did not regret it." -- Maxim Khusainov (producer)
The film has a spiritual essence that is not immediately obvious. It would be too simplistic to interpret it only from the psychological point of view: a woman receives a news about the death of her son, 10 years after he was lost in action. And she finds a substitute in a seven-year old terminally ill orphan. Such a basic interpretation of the film would still deliver a solid human interest and emotional value. Yet the film conveys much more than that. The main theme is love that sustains life, devoid of any regular material values or relationships.
The main personage is not thinking of herself, or of establishing a future private life for herself. She is not looking for a man, for money, for a better job, or any material advancement. All she aspires to is to sustain life in a small dying boy, who is not related to her and is not even Russian, as she is. For that she abandons her house, her job, and at a desperate moment is even open to commit acts outside of the established laws. Yet despite all that, she never betrays the basic human value – to maintain her unofficially adopted son alive at all costs. At the end, her spiritual essence prevails…
Trailer in Russian
Trailer in Russian
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