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THE SWAN SONG OF FEDOR OZEROV

by Yuri Semashko

synopsis

His guitar is out of tune and Fedor (25) isn’t in the best of moods. At the end of the year, the threat of World War III is constantly on the news, which he listens to hungover. While his sister Nina is focused on activism, the apathetic musician becomes active for one thing only: his desire to form a band and write songs. But for that he needs his missing lucky pullover! In ever more obsessive fashion, he sets out in search of the magical object, which is linked to his hope for creative inspiration: an odyssey-cum-detective story driven by great music that leads him through the flats of friends, women and strangers and into conversations with comical characters whose angst is only exceeded by their egos. Everyone here is looking for meaning, kindred spirits or just some intimacy in the face of the end of the world. Combining wit, poetry, Orpheus & Eurydice, orcs & elves and short magical animations, Yuri Semashko creates a portrait of a creative generation defying the weight of the world in a friendly, innocent tone. Born in Belarus and now in exile in Poland, he allows the real horror of repressive systems to simmer under the surface. His microbudget debut is humorous by design.

international title: The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov
original title: Liebiadzinaja piesnia Fiodara Ozierava
country: Lithuania, Germany
year: 2025
genre: fiction
directed by: Yuri Semashko
film run: 78'
screenplay: Yuri Semashko
cast: Viachaslau Kmit, Violetta Rahachova, Pavel Haradnitski, Anastasiya Rysik, Alexey Lyubchenko, Pavel Mikhalenia, Mike Mazur, Mikhail Zui
cinematography by: Siarhei Kavaliou
film editing: Yuri Semashko
art director: Yuri Semashko
music: Sinie Gory
producer: Kęstutis Drazdauskas
co-producer: Leonid Kalitenya, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Christian Riegel, Vladimir Kozlov
production: Artbox, Shoot'n'Post, Singo, Belarusian Filmmakers Network (BY)

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