BRAMA / THE GATEWAY

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by Volodymyr Tykhyy
2017 / Ukraine / USA / 107’
Mystical thriller

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end – Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.

directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy
written by Pavlo Arie, Volodymyr Tykhyy
director of photography Slava Tsvetkov
music by Anton Baibakov
production design by Volodymyr Liubyi
edited by Ihor Kosenko
produced by Igor Savychenko, Marko Suprun, Volodymyr Tykhyy, Volodymyr Filippov, Dmytro Kozhema, Oleksii Moskalenko
cast Irma Vitovska, Vitalina Bibliv, Yaroslav Fedorchuk, Dmytro Yaroshenko, Dmytro Tuboltsev
casting by Maria Trepikova
sound design by Mikhailo Zakutskyi
costume design by Olena Gres
make up by Kateryna Strukova, Iryna Belina
production manager Ilona Srebnodolskaya
production companies Directory Films / Bedlam / Mental Drive Studio
supported by Ukrainian State Film Agency
sales agent Arthouse Traffic
Date

27.11.2017