Eternal Homecoming

  • 114'
  • Ukraine
  • 2012
On screen, images of a casting with various actors. The viewer doesn’t immediately realize this. Towards the finale, Muratova employs a trick. The black-and-white images are broken off and the film continues in colour. In the screening room, the producer and a potential investor, a sugar magnate, discuss the material of the uncompleted film. The director has died and there is no money to finish the movie.
Muratova asked big stars of Russian cinema and stage as well as amateurs who played in her previous films to collaborate on this movie. In her filming of a casting, she once again uses her cherished device of refrains: the repetition of the same scene over and over, with the same replies in the same interior, with a number of actors playing the same part, acquiring non-trivial significance, becoming ironic and philosophical.
Muratova is fascinated by the multi-sidedness of one-sidedness and vice versa. And by possibilities of aesthetic transformations between the world of the past and the one we perceive now.

  • 114'
  • Ukraine
  • 2012
Director
Kira Muratova
Country of production
Ukraine
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
114'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Vecnoe vozvrascenie
Language
Russian
Producer
Oleg Kokhan
Production Company
Sota Cinema Group
Sales
Sota Cinema Group
Screenplay
Kira Muratova
Cinematography
Vladimir Pankov
Editor
Valentina Oleynik
Production Design
Evgeny Golubenko, Oleg Khvastov
Sound Design
Alexander Schepotin
Music
Valentin Silvestrov
Cast
Renata Litvinova, Oleg Tabakov
Director
Kira Muratova
Country of production
Ukraine
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
114'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Vecnoe vozvrascenie
Language
Russian
Producer
Oleg Kokhan
Production Company
Sota Cinema Group
Sales
Sota Cinema Group
Screenplay
Kira Muratova
Cinematography
Vladimir Pankov
Editor
Valentina Oleynik
Production Design
Evgeny Golubenko, Oleg Khvastov
Sound Design
Alexander Schepotin
Music
Valentin Silvestrov
Cast
Renata Litvinova, Oleg Tabakov