Documentary Films - Competition 2019 / Panorama / Ukraine, Poland 2019
Valentin is over sixty and has spent more than forty years working at Kyiv’s oldest cinema. You don’t have to twist his arm to go out drinking and dancing – the eccentric man simply ignores his age. But as with everyone else, life puts up new obstacles that he must overcome.
Valentin is over sixty and has spent more than forty years working at Kyiv’s oldest movie theater. You don’t have to twist his arm to go out drinking and dancing – the eccentric man simply ignores his age. He lives a satisfied “cinematic” life while caring for his ill mother with love and a sense of humor. But as with everyone else, life puts up new obstacles that he must overcome. Through careful observation, the movie offers more than a portrait of the jovial, outgoing Valentin. It also takes a nostalgic look at the past, here personified by the old-timers with whom Valentin drinks a toast while the movie projector rattles on…
Sandra Hezinová
72 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Yuriy Shylov
/ Dir. of Photography Yuriy Shylov, Serafim Kusakin, Ilya Ehorov
/ Editor Yuriy Shylov, Mateusz Wojtynski
/ Producer Gennady Kofman, Olha Beskhmelnytsina
/ Production MAGIKA FILM
/ Coproduction DocEdu Foundation
/ Sales MAGIKA FILM
/ Contact Brigitta Portier
Yuriy Shylov. Filmography: Weight (2015, short), Panorama (2016, short), Projectionist (2019)
MAGIKA FILM
off. 215, Cinema House, 6 Saksaganskogo st., 01033, Kyiv
Ukraine
Phone: +380 577 140 103
E-mail: [email protected]
Brigitta Portier
E-mail: [email protected]
Olha Beskhmelnytsina
Producer
Yuriy Shylov
Film Director
Brigitta Portier
Publicist
Gennady Kofman
Producer
Valentin Speshilov
Protagonist
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