In Ukraine, in 1996, a few months before the death penalty was banned from the country, two old friends, detective Sabitov and forense psychiatrist Oleksandr, investigate the murder of a colleague. They need to deal with post-Soviet bureaucracy, politics, memories from the past, and with an old feeling: they were both in love with the deceased’s wife.
Winner of the Critic’s Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
La Palisiada
2023
18 years
110 min.
Fiction
Ukraine
awarded films
Colorido
Philip Sotnychenko
Philip Sotnychenko
Volodymyr Usyk
Philip Sotnychenko
Andrii Zhurba, Novruz Pashayev, Oleksandr Parkhomenko, Valeria Oleynikova, Olena Mamchur, Oleksandr Maleev, Stepan Barabash
Halyna Kryvorchuk, Valeria Sochyvets, Sashko Chubko
VIATEL, Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
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