A Long and Happy Life

04/11/2013

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1hr 17min

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Drama

STORY

Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with Anya, a secretary at the local government office. But then Sascha is suddenly faced with a dilemma: the district’s self-seeking administrators, none of whom could be termed squeamish, offer him a lucrative deal for the farm. In legal terms, Sascha doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on since his lease on the farm was only agreed with a handshake. The pressure mounts, and even more so when his employees convince him to stand firm. Against the backdrop of a landscape exposed to the elements, this unflinching man’s destiny takes its course.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Anna Kotova
  • Yevgeni Syty
  • Gleb Puskepalis
  • Aleksandr Yatsenko
  • Vladimir Korobeynikov

    Directors

  • Boris Khlebnikov
  • Pavel Kostomarov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Koktebel Film Company
  • Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
  • Cinema Foundation of Russia

    Production Countries

  • Russia

LANGUAGES

  • Russian