2019 - Christmas Stories, short film
2017 - Technical Break, short film
2016 - Nail, short film
2015 - Son, short film
2013 - Hug, short film
DirectorPhilip Sotnychenko
GenrePost-Soviet noir,
CountriesUkraine,
CategoryFeature film,
LanguageUkrainian,
Running time90
Produced byHalyna Kryvorchuk, Valeria Sochyvets, Sashko Chubko
Production CompanyViatel, Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
Co-financedUkrainian State Film Fund, Göteborg Film Fund
ScriptwriterPhilip Sotnychenko
DopVolodymyr Usyk
Production designerRita Kulyk
This film is the director's debut
Synopsis
1996. 5 years since the declaration of Ukraine’s independence. 5 months before the declaration of the death penalty abolition. The murdered cop is found in a lake. The wrong guy is blamed. Police are in a hurry to close the case before the abolition of the death penalty. Oleksandr is an honored psychiatrist in his last year before retirement. He has to play a key role in the investigation of a complicated case and sign the life-or-death decision. Will he risk his friendship and his career to save a young man from the penalty he doesn’t deserve?