Eternal Homecoming

(Vechnoe vozvrashchenie)
(Eternal Return)

  • Introduction

    Stanislav Menzelevskyi is the head of the Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center and is currently a PhD student at the Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington.

featuring

Oleg Tabakov, Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Sergey Makovetskiy,

For her last film, Kira Muratova gathered a who’s who of Russian film and stage actors for this tribute to (or dismantling of) the very concepts of performance, and storytelling. We begin conventionally (already a red flag, for those familiar with Muratova) with a conversational scene between a man and a woman; suddenly, it’s abandoned, to then be repeated by other actors, in another setting entirely. And, suddenly, it switches again. Only the words remain, repeated by new faces, in wildly different settings, with a bizarre variety of new line readings. Cuts to bemused potential film funders remind us that, in cinema, the places and faces may change, but the lines eternally remain.

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Kira Muratova
Cinematographer
  • Vladimir Pankov
Language
  • Russian
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • DCP
  • 114 mins
Source
  • Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center
Permission
  • Sota Cinema Group