Immortal

"Born to march to the rhymes of the power, they follow the promise of immortality"

Feb 11 2020 N/A 1h 1m
Documentary

Apatity, a far-north industrial town in Russia, first came into being as a USSR concentration camp. Although its environment is at the brink of ecological disaster, the people here still believe in the state’s promise of immortality that can be gained through sacrificial service to the fatherland. This is how the elite in a totalitarian state buy a person’s will, strength, talent and, indeed, life, turning the human being into another resource that is as faceless as a grey lump of ore. ‘I cannot fight big corporations or state structures with a film. But I hope that there is someone in the darkness of the cinema whose heart will get a bit warmer after seeing it,’ says the director. The larger part of the film was shot during the polar night.

Plot

The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanisms that entice human beings to voluntarily become a resource to the state. Can a person ever be free in an imperialist society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director's subtle but demanding look reveals "the system" at work in the most benign-looking situations, in all aspects of the everyday. What happens to people's free will and self-determination in such conditions? The film is a Nietzschean treat, asking the core existential question: is a human being ever born free?

Written by

Pauls Bankovskis, Ksenia Okhapkina, Kersti Uibo

Directed by

Ksenia Okhapkina

Cast

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Crew

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Production Countries

Latvia, Estonia

Production Companies

OÜ Vesilind, VFS Films

Languages

Awards

4 wins & 4 nominations

Trailers
IMMORTAL by Ksenia Okhapkina | Trailer | GeoMovies
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7.1 out of 10
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