VODKA FACTORY

One hopes for love after decades of loneliness, the other fights for a dream that threatens her relationship with her child.
Tatiana and her daughter Valentina live in the boring, provincial town of Zhigulyovsk 1000 kilometres south-east of Moscow. Valentina, 22, works in a vodka factory, while Tatiana, 50, is a bus conductor. Valentina, whose dream is to be a TV star in Moscow, has to overcome her own limitations as well as the irony and malice of her comrades at the vodka factory. Tatiana has to adapt her expectations to reality when her potential life partner turns out to be a part-time drunkard and a deadbeat. And on top of all this, both women have to think about Valentina’s son Danilo’s future. One of them has to give up the dream.

Credits:

Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
Producer: Antonio Russo Merenda
Photography: Wojciech Staron
Editing: Agnieszka Bojanowska
Production Manager: Elena Petlarskaya
Sound: Shamil Ismailov,Aleksei Maisenko
Assistant Editor: Jakub Sladkowski
Original music: Henryk Kuzniak, ZAiKS
Sound design & mix: Torsten Rundqvist, Ljud & Form
On-Line & Grading: Kaspar Kallas, Digital Sputnik
Graphics: Maya Kessler
Translations: Jennifer Evans, Barbara Juralovic

Very special thanks to:
Tatiana Pronina,Valentina Barabina,
Danilo Barabin, Andrzej Fidyk

Thanks to:
Vladimir Rudolfovich Kornev, Managing Director Vodka factory in Zhiguljovsk.
Bukaeva Irina Stepanovna.
The women collective at the Vodka Factory in Zhiguljovsk Svetlana, Elena, Ekaterina, Niura, Oxana, Nina and the others.
Malla Grapengiesser.

Produced by:
Hysteria Film AB

In co-production with:
ARTE G.E.I.E./Anne Baumann.
SVT Documentary/Ulla Nilsson.
TVP 1/Barbara Pawlowska.

With the support of:
Swedish Film Institute/Tove Torbiцrnsson.
Polish Film Institute/Agnieszka Odorowicz.

In collaboration with:
YLE Co-Productions/Erkki Astala.

Festivals:
Att: Sara Yamashita Rьster, Swedish Film Institute
International Department
Box 27126, 102 52, Stockholm, Sweden.
Tel +46 8 665 11 41. Cell +46 761 172 678. Fax +46 8 666 36 98
e-mail:sara.ruster@sfi.se
www.sfi.se

Festivals:
DOK Leipzig (Germany) 2010
ARTDOCFEST (Russia) 2010
Trieste Film Festival (Italy) 2011
DocPoint (Finland) 2011
DocPoint (Estonia) 2011
International Documentary Festival Kolkata (India) 2011
Tempo Documentary Festival (Sweden) 2011
One World Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) 2011
HOT DOCS (Canada) 2011
Beldocs Int. Documentary Film Festival (Serbia) 2011
Planete Doc Review Film Festival (Poland) 2011
DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Canada) 2011
Docaviv Film Festival (Israel) 2011
Krakow Film Festival (Poland) 2011
Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival (Ireland) 2011
Pдrnu Film Festival (Estonia) 2011
DOKUFEST (Kosova) 2011
Nordisk Panorama (Denmark) 2011
Bergen International Film Festival (Norway) 2011

Awards:
Golden Dove for Best Feature Length Documentary, DOK Leipzig (Germany) 2010
Tempo Documentary Award, Tempo Documentary Festival (Sweden) 2011
Grand Jury Special Mention, One World Doc. Festival (Czech Republic) 2011
Honourable Mention, DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Canada) 2011
Grand Prize for the Best Artistic Achievement, Pдrnu Film Festival (Estonia) 2011