BLUE DRESS
Berlin Critics' WeekGermany, 2016
Odessa International Film FestivalUkraine, 2016
Pessac festivalFrance, 2016
Honfleur Film FestivalFrance, 2016
Synopsis
After his mother sudden death her son Alexander discovers that he knows nothing about her life, her youth and her past. The mystery of her death puzzles him. Accidentally he finds in his mother's apartment old papers and some old film reels.Found papers turn out to be the diaries of a film director who was in love with his mother while shooting one of his films in the studio of Odessa. Alexander absorbs himself into past lives to understand the relations of unknown people. The story is about lost love, buried hopes, lost old movies – the only witnesses of this drama.
After his mother sudden death her son Alexander discovers that he knows nothing about her life, her youth and her past. The mystery of her death puzzles him. Accidentally he finds in his mother's apartment old papers and some old film reels.Found papers turn out to be the diaries of a film director who was in love with his mother while shooting one of his films in the studio of Odessa. Alexander absorbs himself into past lives to understand the relations of unknown people. The story is about lost love, buried hopes, lost old movies – the only witnesses of this drama.
Production year
2015
Runtime
85 min
Genre
Drama
Countries of production
Ukraine, France
Directed by
Igor Minaev
Scripted by
Igor Minaev, Olha Mykhaylova
Produced by
Irina Duport, Igor Minaev, Iurii Leuta
Director of photography
Senda Bonnet
Cast
Kevin Boise, Gabrielle Lazure, Liliia Ohiyenko, Borys Nevzorov, Lembit Ulfsak, Mykola Tokar
2015
Runtime
85 min
Genre
Drama
Countries of production
Ukraine, France
Directed by
Igor Minaev
Scripted by
Igor Minaev, Olha Mykhaylova
Produced by
Irina Duport, Igor Minaev, Iurii Leuta
Director of photography
Senda Bonnet
Cast
Kevin Boise, Gabrielle Lazure, Liliia Ohiyenko, Borys Nevzorov, Lembit Ulfsak, Mykola Tokar
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Director's statement
Igor Minaev was born in 1954 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Was studing at Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and TV n.a. Karpenko-Kary, feature film department, 1977. Works and lives in Paris.
2018 - The Cacophony of Donbas
2015 - Blue Dress
2006 - Away from Sunset Boulevard
2002 - Moonlight Meadows
1995 - The Flood
1991 - The Underground Temple of Communism
1990 - Ground floor (Сannes Film Festival)
1988 - Cold March (Сannes Film Festival)
2018 - The Cacophony of Donbas
2015 - Blue Dress
2006 - Away from Sunset Boulevard
2002 - Moonlight Meadows
1995 - The Flood
1991 - The Underground Temple of Communism
1990 - Ground floor (Сannes Film Festival)
1988 - Cold March (Сannes Film Festival)
The story of Blue Dress was inspired by three short films which I directed from 1977 to 1985 and that were censured by Soviet authorities. The negatives were destroyed and their titles were excluded from Odessa Film Studio as if they had never existed. They had never been screened in the cinemas as well. Luckily I managed to save positives of these three films which were for more than 30 years kept under the bed. In 2015 I short Blue Dress which comprises extracts of these old short films.
Igor Minaev
Director
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