Inzeyen - Sweet Delight is the second feature film by experienced documentary film maker Vladimir Sivkov. It is a free flow of eight film novellas connected by one character - thirty-year-old Alexei. Alexei is an admirer of Chagall and even tries to paint like him. He is an amateur archaeologist, and tries to fly a hang glider too. The sketches of provincial life somewhere around the Ryazan region are filled in with other peculiar characters surrounding Alexei, like an ugly man, a mute and an old Muslim praying. The sketches are contemporary (the modernised provincial life, a portrait of Putin), as much as they are timeless (as in the old-fashioned life style).
Alexei is also head of the local Cultural Department and a close friend of local artist Katya Medvedeva (played by the real Katya Medvedeva, who is a well-known naïve painter, a representative of the Russian underground whose work has been appreciated by many, including the artist Marc Chagall). Alexei deals with questions about the Russian provincial avant-garde and what it actually means. The almost unbearable lightness of his provincial life leads to the only decisive action in the end: he covers his eyes, hangs spoons on his ears and pronounces the magic word inzeyen that takes him to a different world.
This Russian fairy-tale like film has little dialogue. It is, in its way, a tractate on emptiness and full with young hearted spirit. (LC)
- Director
- Vladimir Sivkov
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 2007
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 75'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Original title
- Inzeyen - Malina
- Language
- Russian
- Producers
- Alina Rizvanova, Mikhail Mikhailov
- Production Company
- Kazan Film studio
- Sales
- Kazan Film studio
- Screenplay
- Vladimir Sivkov, Dennis Ossokin
- Cinematography
- Sergei Khavn
- Editor
- P. Sokolovsky
- Production Design
- Maya Khavn
- Sound Design
- Oleg Zujev, Viktor Klyatchkin
- Music
- Tatyana Litovets
- Cast
- Pavel Gustov, Yekaterina Stoljar