Wednesday, April 3, 2:30 pm, COED 065. Building 52
on this map; closest parking is Union Deck
Drama/Comedy by Alena Zvantsova, Russia 2015/108 min.
Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan, Sergey Danielyan
Russian with English subtitles
Made possible with the support of MARS MEDIA FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY and the UNC Charlotte Russian Club
Introduction by Kate Skorodinskaya, Lecturer of Russian, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.
The intelligent and sophisticated Evgenii Kirillov lives in Moscow. The manager position of the “Nasten’ka” cleaning agency comes to him one day like a lightning bolt out of the blue. His new employees are all Asian migrant women. The complexity of the situation is even more serious because Kirillov is engaged to a Norwegian girl who is a typical European with rather strict ideas of freedom and tolerance. He is terrified of any thought of what can happen if his fiancée finds out how he “exploits” the eastern women. So Kirillov has to dodge and to hide the business…
It’s a comedy of modern Russia, the story of any Russian man who never leaves his women in trouble even if he looks like a weakling at first sight.
“The Norseman plays off several film genres and cultural mythologies including the romantic comedy, buddy film, social drama, as well as recent cinema about Central Asian labor migrants and Soviet mythology of Motherland and patriotism. Zvantsova herself describes her film as a “multi-multi-cultural story” and a “tragi-comedy” in which a love triangle acts as a pretext for an in-depth investigation of “all the social and multi-cultural issues” avoiding undue didacticism and pathos (uralkinofest).”
Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Kinokultura, 2018
