- year : 2020
- country : Russia
- timing : 14:01'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Elena Kuzhel
written and produced by Elena Kuzhel
DoP Sergey Kozmin
music by Roman Kadadov
sound by Kirill Taushkin
editor Nikolai German
production designer Anna Tynyanaya
cast: Igor Savochkin, Georgiy Okudzhava, Nodar Darbinyan, Vera Volkova
The main character is a participant in the first Chechen war. He reads a story dedicated to his comrade in arms. A vision comes to the hero during the reading of each letter. Now war, death, love take on peculiar images. After he finishes reading, he leaves the room and finds himself in a cemetery with unmarked graves. Next to him is a Chechen with a severed ear. Men have a short dialogue before they disappear.
- Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2020, India, Madurai)
- Radonezh International Festival of Films and TV Programmes (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Youth Short Film Festival "Kinomania" (2020, Russia, Pskov)
- Moscow International Film Festival DetectiveFEST (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2021, India, Pune)
- Radiant Angel International Charity Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- LAMPA International Film Festival of socially oriented short films, videos and social advertising (2021, Russia, Perm)
- Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian National Auteur Short Film Festival “Artkino” (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Open Russian Film Festival of Patriotic Cinema "Malaya Zemlya" (2022, Russia, Novorossiysk)
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Elena Kuzhel was born on 06.12.1989 in Lesnikovo, Kurgan region (Russia). In 2012 graduated from the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Letters", short film \ debut