Sleeping Souls

Sleeping Souls

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2013

Runtime

0h 51m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Les âmes dormantes

Production Companies

A Vif Cinémas, Petit à Petit Production

Director

Alexander Abaturov

Description

Atchinsk, 4000 km from Moscow. In a building in this Siberia town, the residents cross paths in the stairs, not prone to discuss the current campaign to elect the next president.. Outside, the city lives by the rhythm of the cold, only the sound of the radio echos the anti-governemant protests of the capital. Those images of a sleeping town blend with some of the salaried-militants of Poutine's party. Iouri, political mercenary for united Russia coldly explains to me the mechanic of the system. The mise en scène of democratic life becomes a theater…