The film tells the incredible fate of the descendants of the famous Golitsyn family, who were forced to leave Russia more than a hundred years ago. The Riga audience will have the opportunity to meet its heroes: Ekaterina, Michael and Aleksa Golitsyn, who live in Alaska and are visiting Europe for the first time specifically for this event.
“The story of the Golitsyn emigration began with the 1917 revolution, when the family escaped the repression of the Soviet authorities, which later joined them in Paris. They had to flee again – to distant Alaska. It seems to have happened a hundred years ago. , but the similarities and coincidences with today’s events are obvious. That’s why it’s important to watch this film now, “says Ekaterina Lanskaya, screening organizer and producer.
The story of the princely family’s search for the house unfolds in the film as a gripping plot: hardships and trials, kidnappings, pursuits and persecutions by special services, a secret life in a deep forest. Her head of the family is Princess Praskovya Nikolaevna, 94, whose sharp mind, clear vision of life, her humor and charm make her the protagonist of the film. Memories of her are revealed in an incredibly well-preserved large family photo and video archive. In their wanderings, this large family has preserved not material values, but nobility and respect, the foundations on which their homes are built.
Documentary family saga Home about the four generations of the Golitsyn family was originally presented as a five-episode film created by the project of Dmitry Vasyukov Happy people within.
“My eyes, which watched all five of Dmitry Vasyukov’s films without stopping Home serious, more than once I have filled myself with tears – tears of joy at the fact that such lively, free and strong personalities live and reveal themselves before me. The characters in the film belong to that rare Guerrilla of the soul to the family that was not born again. But they are still there. In the inhuman noise and rumble of every age, they preserve a person’s humanity, “said the magazine’s editor of his impressions. Riga time publisher, philosopher Arnis Rītups.
Dmitry Vasyukov is a Russian director of the program Fishing Dialogues a longtime co-author and presenter whose documentary Happy people: a year in the taiga on the daily life and virtues of the villagers of the taiga Bakht inspired the famous German directorOscar nominee for the Werner Herzog Award. The international version of the film, featuring Herzog’s voiceover, was released widely in US theaters.
The executive producer of the show is Yekaterina Lanskaya (STREET FILM) – cycle of public dialogues Philosophy on water author and producer of ideas, director and producer of numerous festivals, television projects, video works, the LIMPA festival of the London International Film Awards Paris International Short Film Festival And New York International Women’s Festival the main prize winner.
Project page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Homeofficialmovie
The film will be screened in English and Russian with simultaneous translation into Latvian.
Tickets for the show can be purchased Splendid Palace at the box office and on the website: https://www.splendidpalace.lv
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