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2007 | Color | 80 min

A complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post- Soviet Russia, viewed through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp. Far from exploitation fare, this is a non-clinical character exploration carried out with compassion, depth and respect


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Yatskova; Maria
Script: Yatskova; Maria
Production: Neihause; Raphaela, Vodar; Irina
Photography: Rudako; Grigori
Sound: Berestnev; Philip, Noyes; Alex, Edwards; Jason
Music: Rees; Irina
Cast:Patalachova; Natalia, Dasaeva; Tatiana, Lutsak; Julia
Participation year at FICM: 2007

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