Tesnota
(2021, original release: 2017)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Kino Lorber, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (123 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12281666
LANGUAGE
Russian
NOTES

Title from title frames

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

Film

In Process Record

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

Additional Credits