Thе trilogy "Witnesses"

Thе trilogy "Witnesses"
Thе trilogy "Witnesses"

Thе trilogy "Witnesses" (2016)

Country: Russia, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, France, USA, Romania, Israel

Duration: 60 min

Shoes

Genre: Drama

Director: Konstantin Fam

Screenplay: Konstantin Fam

Producer: Konstantin Fam, Uriy Igrushа, Miсhail Bykov, Alex A. Petruhin, Tanya Dovidovskaya, Krzysztof Wiech, Tania Rakhmanova, Alexey Timofeev, Aleksandr Kulikov, Igor Lopatonok, Sergey Zhdanovich

Director of photography: Asen Shopov (Czech Republic), Sergey Novikov (Belarus), Otabek Djuraev (France), Marec Gajczak (Poland)

Composer: Egor Romanenko

Cast: Uliana Elina, Tatiana Spyrgyash, Ilya Uglava, Alexander Bokovets

Brutus

Genre: Drama

Director: Konstantin Fam

Screenplay: Konstantin Fam

Producer: Konstantin Fam, Uriy Igrushа, Alex A. Petruhin, Ian Fisher Romanovsky, Egor Odintsov

Director of photography: Giora Bejach

Composer: Egor Romanenko

Cast: Oksana Fandera, Filipp Yankovskiy, Vladimir Koshevoy, Anna Churina, Marta Drozdova, Ion Grosu, Mariya Zykova

Nomination: Narrative Feature

Age limitations: 16+

Screenings

Plot

Shoes
The first installment traces the personal history of a Jewish girl in 1930s-1940s from the point of view of a pair of red shoes. Starting from the shop window where the shoes were purchased and ending at a mountain of discarded shoes of the victims in a mass grave of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Brutus

German shepherd named Brutus got into concentration camp and turned from a harmless pet into a killer.

Rewards and nominations

  • Monaco International Film Festival (Monaco), Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Original Music, Best Producer, Best Cinematographer, Angel Peace Award
  • Grand Prix Video Festival Imperia (Italy)
  • Radiant Angel Festival (Russia), Best Live Action Short Film Award

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