Cinema Zone is preparing the film "Tall Girl", inspired by real events, for its loyal viewers on Friday, February 28, starting at 8 p.m.
The plot follows two young women in Leningrad after World War II. Tall and skinny Ija works as a nurse at a war veterans' hospital, occasionally falling into a trance. She sometimes takes little Paško with her, the son of his unpredictable and moody friend Masha, who is the complete opposite of the seemingly passive Ija. The film is inspired by the stories of Russian women from the Second World War, published in the controversial book War has no female face by Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksijevic.
"Beanpole" is a film with the signature of the currently most sought talent on the international festival scene, the young Russian wunderkind Kantemir Balagov. It is based on the literary template "The Unwomanly Face of War", Nobel-winning Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Aleksievich, and tells the story of the effects of war - madness, pain and paralysis from the perspective of two women who try to rebuild their homes after returning from the front in Leningrad in 1945 life.
After the success of the first film "Closeness", awarded in Cannes, the young director K. Balagov justified the status of a favorite of critics twice by winning the award for best director and (journalistic) award FIPRESCI in the program A Certain View in Cannes.
The film is also praised for its visual prose, which evokes masterpieces of European painting and is signed by one of Russia's most talented directors of photography, 25-year-old Ksenia Sereda.
Tickets at the price of 20 kuna can be purchased every working day from 8 am to 2 pm in the premises of the Alliance of Independent Culture Centre (across the post office in Relja) and at the location of the screening an hour before the screening.
