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THE GATEWAY

by Volodymyr Tykhyy

synopsis

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.

international title: The Gateway
original title: Brama
country: Ukraine
year: 2017
genre: fiction
directed by: Volodymyr Tykhyy
film run: 107'
screenplay: Volodymyr Tykhyy, Pavlo Arie
cast: Vitalina Bibliv, Yaroslav Fedorchuk, Dmytro Iaroshenko, Dmytro Tuboltsev, Irma Vitovskaya
cinematography by: Slava Tsvetkov
film editing: Igor Kosenko
art director: Volodymyr Liubyi
costumes designer: Alena Gres
music: Anton Baibakov
producer: Volodymyr Filippov, Igor Savychenko, Marko Suprun, Volodymyr Tykhyy
co-producer: Oleksii Moskalenko
executive producer: Dmytro Kozhema
production: Directory Films

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