- year : 2020
- country : Russia
- timing : 30:00'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Svetlana Stasenko
written by Svetlana Stasenko
produced by Svetlana Stasenko, Liza Antonova
DoP Irina Uralskaya
music by Arnold Giskin
sound by Sorin Apostol, Yuriy Geddert
editor Svetlana Stasenko
production company: Studio "Passenger"
Spitak is the city of the dead. Thirty years ago there was a terrible earthquake here. Tens of thousands of people died, and the survivors seemed frozen in this time forever. Pargev Manukyan's family lives opposite the huge Spitak cemetery – and it seems as if some unknown force is not allowing them to escape from despair and poverty...
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2019, Russia, Vyborg)
- Visions du Réel International Film Festival (2020, Switzerland, Nyon)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival, Jury Diploma «For Humanism in the Modern World» (2020, USA, New York)
- Portobello Film Festival (2020, UK, London)
- KIN International Women's Film Festival, Jury Diploma (2020, Armenia, Yerevan)
- Open Film Festival "Kinoshok" (2020, Russia, Anapa)
- International Audiovisual Anthropology Film Festival "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" (2020, Moscow, Russia)
- Radonezh International Festival of Films and TV Programmes, Special Jury Mention (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Baikal International Film Festival «Man and Nature» n.a. V.G.Rasputin (2021, Russia, Irkutsk)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Svetlana Stasenko was born in Izhevsk, Russia. Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University as a journalist and Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (VKSR) as a film director.
Works in both fiction and documentary films. Collaborated with companies such as "Rock", "Good production", "Risk", "Tskaro", "Forward", "Gamma", "RWS", "Etnoland", "Passenger" and others. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and Directors Guild of Russia, Member of the International Academy of Television and Radio, winner of Russian and International Film Festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Spitak. Thirty years of Solitude", documentary
2018 - "Shamanic lessons for beginners", documentary
2015 - "The Piano", documentary
2014 - "Julia and the Shamans", documentary
2013 - "The drug addict’s diary" documentary
2013 - "The Tram Romance", documentary
2012 - "Through the needles of coniferous trees", documentary
2011 - "I have no blood", documentary
2009 - "Uplifting", documentary
2009 - "Free People" documentary
2007 - "V. I. Lenin. The myths keep secret about it", documentary
2006 - "Always your Andrei Mironov", documentary
2005 - "Maya Kristalinskaya", documentary
2004 - Mirage over Cupid, a documentary
2004 - The Baikal Trap, documentary
2004 - "Angel on the sidelines", fiction film
2002 - The Caryatids, documentary
2001 - "Boulevard Passions", documentary
2001 - "Spring is coming", documentary
2001 - "Karambolina", short fiction film
2000 - "Sliver", documentary
2000 - "Space Wanderer", documentary
2000 - "Alexander F. Sklyar. Song", documentary
1998 - "No need to pity us", short fiction film
1997 - "Rolling poet", documentary
