Hare Hunting
East of the West - Competition 2003 / Ochota na zajcev / Russia 2003
A mother takes her son to the country to say goodbye to his dead grandmother. The boy still doesn’t understand death’s implications, and so he tries to get his grieving grandfather to go with him into the woods after hares...
Synopsis
Bitter cold. A mother takes her son to the country to say goodbye to his dead grandmother. The boy still doesn’t understand death’s implications, he only notes the unnatural cold of his grandmother’s body. He tries to get his grieving grandfather to go with him into the woods after hares. Grandpa obliges him and they wander around the snowy landscape all day long. A big white hare emerges from the woods near their small fire, and against all regulations, the grandfather kills it with an axe. In shock over the act he has committed he is reduced to tears.
About the film
23 min / Color, 35 mm
World premiere
Director Igor Voloshin
/ Screenplay Alexej Fedorčenko / Alexey Fedorchenko
/ Dir. of Photography Andrej Najdenov / Andrey Naydenov
/ Music Leonid Fjodorov / Leonid Fedorov, Anton Guzev, Sainkho Namtchylack
/ Editor Ljudmila Zalogněvová / Ludmila Zalogneva
/ Producer Alexej Fedorčenko / Alexey Fedorchenko
/ Production Sverdlovsk Film Studio
/ Cast Pjotr Zajčenko / Piotr Zaychenko, Roma Medveděv / Roma Medvedev, Olga Simjonovová / Olga Simonova
/ Contact Sverdlovsk Film Studio
www: www.hare-hunting.ru
About the director
Igor Voloshin (b. 1974) studied acting at the State Theatre Institute in Yaroslavl (1996) before returning to his native Sevastopol to work at a local theatre. He then studied documentary and television filmmaking at Moscow’s VGIK film school, graduating in 2000. Filmography: Mesivo (2000) and Bitch (Suka, 2002), reflecting the atmosphere of the Chechen War (screened in last year’s documentary competition at Karlovy Vary). The short film Hare Hunting,(2003) is drawn from Kenji Maruyama’s story In the Snow was made at Sverdlovsk Film Studios.
Contacts
Sverdlovsk Film Studio
50, Pr. Lenina, 62075, Ekaterinburg
Russia
Phone: +7 343 250 1538
Fax: +7 343 250 1538
E-mail: fck@mail.ru
Guests
Igor Voloshin
Film Director, Production Company
