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Russian Dreams

Sergei Ovcharov | Russia | 2001 | 10' |

| IFFR 2001

This short animation film was based on the work of the versatile Efim Chestnyakov, and is about the ‘typically Russian’ in past and future. The story is about a lost Atlantis/Russia. Sergei Ovcharov (Rostov on the Don, 1955) studied at the Moscow Cultural Institute.

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