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ONCE UPON A TIME… LOVELESS


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ONCE UPON A TIME... LOVELESS

Director Olivia Mokiejewski
Writer Olivia Mokiejewski & Serge July
Original score
Olivier Depardon
Image Yann L’Hénoret
Editing Isabelle Martin
Graphic design Amélie Vappereau
Length 52′
Format HDCam, 16/9e
Versions French and English
Copyrights Folamour – ARTE France – 2020
Broadcaster ARTE

 

Protagonists : 

  • Andreï ZVIAGUINTSEV, director of “Loveless”
  • Mariana SPIVAK, actress, plays Genia
  • Alexeï ROZINE, actor, plays Boris
  • Alexander RODNIANSKI, producer of “Loveless”
  • Anton DOLINE, cinema critic
  • Mikhail KRITCHMAN, director of photography of the film
  • Grigori SERGUEEV, founder of Liza Alert
  • Anna CHEGREEVA & Dmitri ISSAEV, Liza Alert volunteers

In Moscow, a couple is in the midst of a divorce. Their unwanted and unloved son endures the situation in silence, until the day he disappears on his way home from school…Jury Prize at Cannes in 2017, “Loveless” is a dark portrait of Putin’s Russia. This documentary, shot entirely in Moscow, shows how “Loveless” is a critique of contemporary consumerist individualism and confirms the place of Andreï Zviaguintsev as the leader of new Russian cinema.