ARRHYTHMIA
synopsis
Oleg is heading for his thirties. He works as a paramedic and, after a hard shift, he likes to take a few swigs. His wife Katya is also a doctor, working in the hospital’s emergency department. But her patience with Oleg is running thin, so she announces one day that she wants a divorce… One of the most intriguing filmmakers on the Russian scene today, Boris Khlebnikov returns to the big screen with a meticulous piece of direction. Along with precise performances from the cast, the film examines a relationship experiencing an arrhythmia similar to that affecting the hearts of the patients Oleg treats in his job as a paramedic.
original title: | Arrhythmia |
country: | Russia, Finland, Germany |
sales agent: | Indie Sales |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Boris Khlebnikov |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | EE 19/01/2018, DE 19/04/2018, FI 11/05/2018, FR 1/08/2018 |
screenplay: | Boris Khlebnikov, Natalya Meshchaninova |
cast: | Alexander Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Anna Ukolova, Anna Kotova, Vladimir Kapustin, Maksim Lagashkin |
cinematography by: | Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev |
film editing: | Ivan Lebedev, Yulia Batalova |
art director: | Olga Khlebnikova |
producer: | Ruben Dishdishyan, Sergey Selyanov, Natalia Drozd, Aleksi Hyvärinen, Toni Valla, Eva Blondiau |
production: | Don Films, Post Control, Color of May, CTB Film Company (RU), Mars Media Entertainment (RU) |
distributor: | Déjà vu, Les Valseurs |