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Release Date:
April 18, 2015
Original Title:
Grozny Blues
Genres:
Documentary | History
Production Companies:
SRF
soap factory
Production Countries:
Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 104
«Grozny Blues» follows a few people around Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya where daily life is defined by political repression, constricting customs, forced Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history. The film revolves around four women who have been fighting for human rights under worsening conditions for many years but get more and more disillusioned with the situation in Putin’s Russia. The building where they work is also home to a Blues Club that is frequented by a group of young people. Having only vague memories of the Chechen wars in the 90s, they try to make sense of the strange things that are happening in their country. In linking the personal and intimate to the political, Nicola Bellucci shows in a dramatic and yet very poetic way what it means to live in a divided society that navigates a no-man’s land between war and peace, repression and freedom, archaic traditions and modern life.
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Color Grading:
Peter Guyer
Ueli Müller
Director:
Nicola Bellucci
Director of Photography:
Nicola Bellucci
Olga Kravets
Géraldine Zosso
Simon Guy Fässler
Editor:
Chiara Ronchini
Alkmini Boura
Sophie Brunner
Anja Bombelli
Producer:
Frank Matter
Sound Editor:
Pedro Haldemann
Olivier Jeanrichard
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Ansgar Frerich
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