BEYOND THE STEPPES.indd - European Film Festival in Miami
BEYOND THE STEPPES.indd - European Film Festival in Miami BEYOND THE STEPPES.indd - European Film Festival in Miami
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LOCARNO FESTIVAL 2010
<strong>BEYOND</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>STEPPES</strong><br />
by Vanja d’Alcantara<br />
CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE <strong>Festival</strong> del <strong>Film</strong> Locarno 2010<br />
WITH AGNIESZKA GROCHOWSKA, ALEKSANDRA JUSTA, BORYS SZYC<br />
In 1940 N<strong>in</strong>a, a young Polish woman, is deported with her baby by the<br />
Soviet Army to the remote and <strong>in</strong>hospitable lands of the USSR. She has<br />
to work <strong>in</strong> a Sovkhoz guarded by the Russian political police. When her<br />
child becomes ill, she sets out on a search of medications with a group of<br />
Kazakh nomads. The film draws the <strong>in</strong>timate and personal experience of<br />
this woman, forced <strong>in</strong>to exile, <strong>in</strong> her struggle aga<strong>in</strong>st extreme conditions<br />
of this <strong>in</strong>human land.<br />
PRODUCTION NEED PRODUCTIONS - LUNANIME - AKSON STUDIO<br />
BELGIUM - POLAND / 2010 / 90’ / 35 MM / FEATURE FILM<br />
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