MOSCOW -- A controversial film set in wartime Nazi occupied Russia that confronts issues of loyalty, betrayal and collaboration, scooped the major prizes Sunday at the Moscow International Film Festival. Svoi (Us) one of three Russian films in competition and directed by Dmitri Meskhiyev, won the fest's top prize, a gold statuette of Moscow's patron Saint George in addition to taking best director and the best actor award for star Bogdan Stupka. An at times violent drama focussing on what happens to three Soviet soldiers -- a sniper, a commissar and a 'politrook' (political officer) -- when they escape in occupied territory after falling into German hands during the Blitzkrieg battles of the summer of 1941, Svoi is shot on grainy film stock with washed out colours that do little to calm audience reactions as throats are sliced or heads crushed with rocks during scenes of hand-to-hand fighting.
- 6/27/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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