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DAB Films Program

Damned of the War, The

Russia
2009, 90min.

Producers: Veronica Zonabend, Olga Zhulina, Director: Olga Zhulina, Script: Yelena Isayeva, Olga Zhulina, Story by: Vasil Bykov, Director of Photography: Vladimir Brylyakov, Composer: Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Prod.Design: Sergei Gudilin, Sound: Andrei Korinski, Editor: Natalia Sazhina
Cast: Nina Loshinina, Yuri Kolokolnikov

They are in love. However, the ruthless war is in their way. The frontline passes through each soul by making them choose: personal happiness or one’s duty to the homeland, love or war, life or death. How should one survive in the potentially fatal duel?

Awards
Best Actress (Literature and Cinema Festival, St. Petersburg), Prize of the Leningrad Region Governor for great input in development of military-patriotic and youth themes, as well as for creative-educational potential, Prize of Konenikov for the Best Director (Golden Phoenix FF), Best Actress, Best Director Debut (IF of Military Film after Yu. Ozerov), Best Actress (Volokolamski Rubezh IF of Military-Patriotic Film named after S. Bondarchuk)

Production Company
KinoProdvizhenie with support of the Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography, RF

Zhulina, Olga

Olga Zhulina (born 1957)
Graduated from the Theatrical School after Shchepkin (artistic supervisor L. Kheyfets). She was an actress in Mayakovski Theatre and Gogol Theatre. Zhulina was awarded the Best Actress prize in the Tashkent FF for the leading role in After Exam. In 1993 she gtaduated from Moscow Higher Film Directing Courses (master class of V. Naumov).

Filmography
The Northern Pole (1998), Legends of Ararat (2000), On the Roads of France (2005), A Kiss Not for the Press (2008), The Damned of the War (2009)

Screenings

July 14 19:00Naregatsi Art Center
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