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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (123 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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TESNOTA (CLOSENESS, 2017) is the incendiary debut feature from the young and brilliant Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole). 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish enclave, involving the police is out of the question. How will the family raise the money to save David? Ilana and her parents, each in their own way, will go as far as necessary, whatever the risks to themselves
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Anna Levit, Atrem Cipin, Darya Zhovner, Nazir Zhukov, Olga Dragunova, Veniamin Kac
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2017
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English