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Original name: The Alienated
English name: The Alienated
Year: 2024
Run time: 95 minutes
Language: Russian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Germany, Moldova, France
Director: Anja Kreis
Producer: Anja Kreis
Cast: Dana Ciobanu, Maria Chuprinskaya, Epchil Akchalov, Maria Stepanova, Ira Cazac
Screenplay: Anja Kreis
Cinematographer: Eugeniu Dedcov
Editor: Anja Kreis
Sound Designer: Dumitru Grețu
Costume Designer: Anja Kreis, Olga Sokolova-Grati, Tatiana Pascaru
Production Designer: Igor Iurco, Sergiu Radu
Production Company: Fortis Fem Film
World Sales: Fortis Fem Film
Director, screenwriter, producer. Anja studied film and fine arts at Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM). Her graduation film Scythe Hitting Stone had its premiere in the competition of the Transilvania IFF 2018 and won the Special Jury Award. With Alisa Berger and Yana Ugrekhelidze Anja founded 2019 production company Fortis Fem Film, whose goal is to increase the presence of women in film business - in front of and behind the camera. They focus on short and long feature, documentary and animated films that deal explicitly with various women's issues.
Varvara, a professor of philosophy, is discussing the concept of God’s death with her students. She is visited by her sister Angelina, an eminent gynaecologist who has been recalled from Moscow and sent to the city of X, where she is to reduce the number of abortions. Not long afterwards a girl comes to see her at the hospital, asking her to perform an abortion, claiming that she is carrying the Antichrist in her womb. After a heated dispute with a student, Varvara ponders the presence of evil in human nature, while Angelina carries out an illegal abortion on the girl and takes the embryo home with her... This mystical film is beguiling for its ominous atmosphere and raises uncomfortable questions about human conscience, morality and faith, although it declines to provide definitive answers.
