Birds of Paradise Ukraine
2008, 94min.
Prod.: Oleg Kochan, Script: Rustam Ibrahimbekov, Dir.: Roman Balayan, Dir. of Phot.: Bogdan Verzhbitsky, Compos.: Vadim Khrapachov, Prod. Design: Vladimir Karashevsky, Sound: Vyacheslav Shcherbak, Edit.: Viktor Fedik.
Cast: Andrey Kuzichev, Oksana Akin'shina, Oleg Yankovskiy.
Early 80s in the Soviet Union... Listening to foreign broadcasting is prohibited; expressing one’s opinion is dangerous. One can openly speak only in the kitchen behind the closed curtain and find truth in the Samizdat materials (self-print) that is passed on secretly from friend to friend. KGB is phone tapping, watching over unreliable persons and planning annihilation of the dissidence. Young writer Sergey Goloborodko wrote the novel “Station Knol” that describing the reverse of “Real Socialism”. KGB agents are ready for everything: blackmails, arrests, assassinations for the sake of novel would not be published abroad, that truth about totalitarian order would not get over the iron curtain. The main friend of Sergey is pushed by KGB to betray him, the famous writer - Sergey's spiritual teacher is arrested and died in prison and the beloved woman is vanishing from his life... The characters are trying to fly away from these obstacles but it is not so easy to fly from oneself…
Production Companies
SOTA Cinema Group
Kreschatik, 4 of 12
Kiev, 01001
Ukraine
tel.: +380 (44) 537 09 45, 278 6095
e-mail: kokhan@sota.net.ua
| Balayan, Roman Roman Balayan (born 1941, Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh)
A graduate of the Cinema School of the Kyiv Theater State Institute with a diploma of a film director in 1969, Balayan has since been living and working in Kyiv and Moscow as a film director, scriptwriter and producer.
Filmography
Thief (Vor, 1969); The Romashkin Effect (Effekt Romashkina, 1973); Kashtanka (1975); Lone Wolf (Biryuk, 1977); Flights in Dreams and in Reality (Polyoty vo sne i nayavu, 1982); Guard Me, My Talisman (Khrani menya, moy talisman, 1986); The Kiss (Potseluy, 1983); The Spy (Filyor, 1987); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda, 1989); The First Love (Pervaya lyubov, 1995); Two Moons, Three Suns (Dve luny, tri solntsa, 1998); A Night in the Parajanov Museum (1998); The Night Is Bright (Noch Svetla, 2004); Birds of Paradise (2008)
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