2022 | Fiction | 121 min. | Russia | 12+
They met and are inextricably linked with each other now. They love, they hate, they cheat, they want to change each other, and they want to subjugate forever, they kill each other, they raise common children. Their names are Russia and Caucasus.
Directors Statement
Relations between Russia and the Caucasus are the «Terra Incognita» in Russian cinema, a theme hidden behind the canons of politics and religions, buried under the stamps of wars and gang fights of the nineties of the twentieth century. I really want to understand the origins of these difficult relations, to see how Russia influenced the world of the Caucasus, and how the Caucasus changed Russia. We decided to go back two hundred years and see where it all started. We will talk about the wonderful paganism of the North Caucasus, about how the first imams of Dagestan and Chechnya, Gazi-Magomed and Shamil, waged a long-term war against the Empire, about the appearance of Sufi sheikhs in the Caucasus with ideas of Peace, and how these ideas influenced Russian society and even world philosophy. 1813-1913. A hundred years, which we know only from the works of Mikhail Lermontov and Leo Tolstoy. By the way, Lermontov and Tolstoy are also the heroes of our film. Just like Pushkin, Gogol, Dmitry Mendeleev, and even Alexander Dumas – the Caucasus attracted creative people from all over the world. All the scenes are based on real events, even the characters' speech is taken from historical scientific sources.
Director: Alexey Fedorchenko
Producers: Alexey Fedorchenko and Dmitry Vorobiev
Сast: Georgiy Iobadze, Oleg Yagodin, Nikolay Kolyada, Alexey Romanov, Alexey Fedorchenko, Daria Ismagulova, Joël Chapron, Evgeniy Chistyakov, Lubov Vorozhcova and Aslsnbek Galaov
Studio: 29th February Film Company
