News From the Other World

2020 28 min

Overview

The Mamleev family portrait, set in the cramped interior of a small Moscow flat, is an experiment in metaphysical documentary making. Yury Mamleev, the great writer of the Russian chthonic, plays with a cat while his wife, the translator Maria Mamleeva, flips through a photo album from their émigré years in Paris and America. But something eerie seeps into these scenes of simple comfort, vaguely manifesting itself in the elliptical editing and the soundtrack’s unsettling, abstract humming.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

Russia

Spoken Languages

Russian ru

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Cast

Mariya Mamleeva

Yury Mamleev

Crew

Valentina Bek

Director

Valentina Bek

Producer

Valentina Bek

Screenplay

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