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1993.01-03
Moscow, Russia |
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1994.08.00
Locarno Film Festival
1995.04.26
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13,500
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L'Inondation (1995)
aka: The Flood
DIRECTOR: Igor Minayev
CAST: Boris Nevzorov; Svetlana Kryuchkova; Mariya Lipkina
SYNOPSIS
Sophia
and Trofim were married many years but failed to conceive. They adopted a 12-year-old
girl Granka, who used to live next door. The girl grew up to a sensual young thing
a few years later. Trofim couldn't help being attracted to her and ended up sleeping
with her. Feeling jealous and unsecured, Sophia began to plot Ganka's demise and
lived in a semi-illusion thereafter...
NOTE
It's probably the first project that Isabelle
has desire to initialize by her own. She purchased the novel's right and pushed
the
film to be made as one of the first collaborations between France and post-Soviet-Union.
When you read the novel, you will understand why she is so much intrigued,
because
the character Sophia is so perfectly fit in Isabelle's territory - quiet, ambiguous,
cold outside, volcanic inside.
The film was
shot in Russia, with all Russian crew, and dubbed in French only. For some unknown
reasons, the film is never brought to the public, except some marginal screenings,
such as at 1999's Paris Film Festival, or Hommage to Isabelle at the
3th Festival of French Film in Grace in 2002. - FORUM
QUOTE
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The
Flood", written in 1929
Trofim
Ivanovich and Sofya continued to live as they always had, without children. Sofya,
though almost forty, was still as light and strick of body as a bird. Her lips,
which seemed forever tightly shut to everyone, still opened to Trofim Ivanovich
at night. And yet, things weren't the same. The difference was not yet clear,
had not yet happened into words. The words came much later, in the fall, and
Sofya
remembered: it was on a Saturday night; there was high wind; the water in the
Nava was rising. -translated by Mirra Ginsburg©1966,
1967, by Random House, Inc.
AWARD
- Official Selection of Locarno
International Film Festival, August, 1994, Switzerland
- One of the films selected in Her Film Retrospectives at Moma, Oct-Nov., 2005
- American Television Premier on Sundance Channel, April 13, 2006
TRIVIA
It's the first project in 11 years
that Daniel Toscan Plantier helped Isabelle to
raise the funding to make the film, since Entre
Nous in 1983. The film was shot in the winter of 1993 in
Moscow, was supposedly the first film coorparated between France
and Russia, after Soveit-Union broke up.
REVIEW
Russie/Cinema
- Isabelle de Moscou, Le Monde, 29 jav. 1993
The Oxe-woman cometh, Guardian, March 7 1993
"Tournage:
L'Inondation", April, Premiere, 1993
The Floold, Variety April 11 1994
"La
Passion Russe d'Isabelle Huppert" (in French), L'événement
du jeudi, 26 avril au 3 mai 1995
Isabelle Huppert ou le jeu sans frontière, InfoMatin, le 3 mai 1995
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