THE GATEWAY
synopsis
Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.
international title: | The Gateway |
original title: | Brama |
country: | Ukraine |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Volodymyr Tykhyy |
film run: | 107' |
screenplay: | Volodymyr Tykhyy, Pavlo Arie |
cast: | Vitalina Bibliv, Yaroslav Fedorchuk, Dmytro Iaroshenko, Dmytro Tuboltsev, Irma Vitovskaya |
cinematography by: | Slava Tsvetkov |
film editing: | Igor Kosenko |
art director: | Volodymyr Liubyi |
costumes designer: | Alena Gres |
music: | Anton Baibakov |
producer: | Volodymyr Filippov, Igor Savychenko, Marko Suprun, Volodymyr Tykhyy |
co-producer: | Oleksii Moskalenko |
executive producer: | Dmytro Kozhema |
production: | Directory Films |