Un Lac
Orrizzonti
Film Festival 2009
Un Lac
A Film by Philippe Grandrieux
2008 - France - Drama - 1.85 DCP - 90 min.
with Dmitry Kubasov , Natalie Rehorova , Alexei Solonchev & Simona Hülsemann
Language:
French
Produced by
Catherine Jacques
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with a pure heart. A woodcutter. An ecstatic, prey to epileptic fits, he is entirely opened to the nature that surrounds him. Alexi is terribly close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, their father, and their little brother are the silent witnesses to their overwhelming love. A stranger arrives, a young man barely older than Alexi…
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