Also Directed by Volodymyr Tykhyy
A story about a sad incident that have made lighter one’s unbearable being.
Uncle Tolya’s wife hung herself, and his children went abroad. He lives on his own and feels very lonely. In order to get rid of these feelings Uncle Tolya starts talking to God. He prays every day, and asks God to restore justice by making suffer not only him but the rest of the people as well. If everybody would die, especially sinners in violent torture, Uncle Tolya would gain peace. While Lord is not answering the prayers of his servant, Uncle Tolya decides to play God’s role.
A philosophical parable about the life of suburbs.
Kolia spends his time in the striptease-bar and suddenly he recognizes among the dancers his school friend.
Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.
An absurd story reflecting contemporary social problems in Ukraine, told in the century-old language of cinema, linking modernity and traditional Soviet socialist realism. Classical imagery imitates an old ideology contradicting the author’s worldview revealing the roots of reality’s distortion in this post-Soviet ambience showing that cultural, political and economic problems are knotted in military conflict.
"Fire in the House of Trade Unions" is the sixth film in the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us" about the events of the revolution of dignity. The fire in the House of trade unions occurred on the night of February 18-19, 2014. Who arranged it is still not known. And this is not the only secret that the fiery tragedy hides...
