A middle-aged woman lives alone in her cottage in the countryside. In archive footage, we see her as a famous Soviet tractor heroine in the prime of her life. An unusual documentary from hermetically closed Belarus, filled with melancholy about times past.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Belarus
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
