BRAMA / THE GATEWAY
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