TRIBUTES AND RETROSPECTIVES

Isabelle Huppert, European

Navodneniye

Igor Minaïev
1993 - France / - 1h40

Screenings : thursday 25 - 10:00 am - 400 Coups - 1

To save her dying marriage, Sophia suggests that she and her husband Trofim should adopt Ganka, a thirteen-year-old orphan. The intrusion of the teenager will be even more destructive for the couple.

Director, screenwriter, actor and producer Igor Minaiev was born in the USSR, in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1954. After studying at the National Theatre and Film Institute in Kiev, he began his career as a director in Odessa, during Perestroika, the spirit of which he embodied perfectly in two feature films, Kholodnyy mart (A Cold March) (1988) and Pervyy etazh (First Floor) (1990), both selected for the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Since the late 1980s, he has lived and worked in France, where he has directed Navodneniye (The Flood) (1993), starring Isabelle Huppert, followed by Lunnye polyany (Moon Glades) (2002), Daleko ot Sanset Bulvara (Far From Sunset Boulevard) (2006) and Blakitna Suknya (Blue Dress) (2016), selected at the Berlinale. The reissue of a rare film by the artist whose work is at the heart of current events with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and whose documentary The Cacophony of Donbass, released in 2018, is highly topical. He is currently filming a new documentary in Kiev.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Isabelle Huppert, Boris Nevzorov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Mariya Lipkina
Screenplay : Jacques Baynac, Igor Minaiev, Bernard Stora
Cinematography : Vladimir Pankov
Sound : Igor Urvantsev
Editing : Noëlle Boisson, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Music : Anatoli Dergachyov

Production : Erato Films, La Sept Cinéma, Ima Films, Les Films du Camélia, Mosfilm

French distributor : Les Films du Camélia