OLGA – TO MY FRIENDS
Paul-Anders Simma / Finland, Norway, Sweden / 2013 / 58 min / Colour
Italian premiere
In the Russian region of Lapland, 1800 kilometres north of Moscow, temperatures often plunge to more than twenty degrees below zero. Although this environment is hostile to human life, men have learned over thousands of years to coexist with this land, its animals, the snow, ice, and long polar nights. Olga lives in a little house covered by a thick blanket of snow. Hers is a hard life, a tortured existence. Through her eyes, observing the vehicles of the reindeer herders who bring provisions and that won’t return until springtime, we experience the long, Lappish winter.
Paul-Anders Simma
Born in 1959, the Finnish director Paol-Anders Simma has worked for more than thirty years in both television and film. He has participated in prestigious international festivals including the XX Moscow International Film Festival. Of Sami origins, like his protagonist, he shot his first film in 1979 in Lovozero, Olga’s town.
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Language Russian, Sami Subject Paul-Anders SimmaScreenplay Paul-Anders SimmaCinematography Elen LotmanSound Martti TurunenEditing Anders TeigenMusic Esa KotilainenProducer Paul-Anders SimmaProduction company Taskovski Films
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