ONCE UPON A TIME... LOVELESS
Director | Olivia Mokiejewski |
Writer | Olivia Mokiejewski & Serge July |
Original score |
Olivier Depardon |
Image | Yann L’Hénoret |
Editing | Isabelle Martin |
Graphic design | Amélie Vappereau |
Length | 52′ |
Format | HDCam, 16/9e |
Versions | French and English |
Copyrights | Folamour – ARTE France – 2020 |
Broadcaster | ARTE |
Protagonists :
- Andreï ZVIAGUINTSEV, director of “Loveless”
- Mariana SPIVAK, actress, plays Genia
- Alexeï ROZINE, actor, plays Boris
- Alexander RODNIANSKI, producer of “Loveless”
- Anton DOLINE, cinema critic
- Mikhail KRITCHMAN, director of photography of the film
- Grigori SERGUEEV, founder of Liza Alert
- Anna CHEGREEVA & Dmitri ISSAEV, Liza Alert volunteers
In Moscow, a couple is in the midst of a divorce. Their unwanted and unloved son endures the situation in silence, until the day he disappears on his way home from school…Jury Prize at Cannes in 2017, “Loveless” is a dark portrait of Putin’s Russia. This documentary, shot entirely in Moscow, shows how “Loveless” is a critique of contemporary consumerist individualism and confirms the place of Andreï Zviaguintsev as the leader of new Russian cinema.