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Actualisé le 14.02.2008

Slava Ross

Réalisateur / Long métrage, / Russie

Langues parlées : Russe , Anglais

"GODFORSAKEN IN SIBERIA" - Long métrage fiction

Siberia. In an abandoned village somewhere in taiga there lives an old man with his seven-year-old grandson. A troop of feral dogs is devouring all living creatures in the nearby outskirts. One of the dogs is the only friend of the boy. But the old man disapproves of such friendship. Sometimes uncle Yura, their relative, brings them some food. Once, on his way back from the village, uncle Yura perishes accidentally. The old man runs out of food, the dogs savage his only goat - so he starts hunting the dogs. The boy sees his grandfather shooting in "his" dog and runs away, later the old man finds him in the dried-up well, but cannot get him out by himself. To save his grandson the old man walks to the town through the woods. Now the dogs are hunting him.

Slava Ross was born in Siberia in 1966. In 1989 he graduated from a theatre studio as a dramatical actor. For 7 years Slava worked in the "Red Torch" theatre in Novosibirsk. In 1999 he entered the All-Russian Cinematography Institute (VGIK), the faculty of directing feature films. His first student short film Meat (2002) has won over 20 international awards, including several Grand Prix. SELECT (The International Center of connections of Cinema & TV schools attached to UNESCO) has included the film Meat into the international program of studying cinematography as a school supply. In 2003 Slava was accepted to the Guild of Directors of Russia. In 2004 he was considered the best VGIK student & got the president grant.
Slava Ross founded an independent film company "Tundra Film", a lyrical comedy Fat Stupid Rabbit was its first fulllength project. Now "Tundra Film" has two new projects, one of which is Godforsaken in Siberia.

Even the beast knows compassion, but a man is not a beast. The people are abandoned and forgotten in desolate Siberia, with in the icons of the saints, indiscernable behind muddy glass. They are surviving like thrown out pets, without pity to each other, satisfying their natural requirements - eat, sleep, copulate. There is no place for compassion here. Pain and suffering are common, God has forgotten this place, but the people haven't forgotten God. A dying old man drags himself through the taiga seeking help, while feral dogs rove across the same arid landscape, abandoned in the same way. Who will help him? The low sky won't hear his prayers. God is dead. Only a man can help a man. When life doesn't leave a chance for people to keep something humane inside, they still, contrary to common sense & life experience, manifest compassion.

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