What Beat You Nothing
Kto tebya pobedil nikto
Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She’s famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm of worries and sorrow?
Maybe this is what intrigued Ljubov Arkus – arguably the most outstanding figure in modern Russian critical film culture – about her in the first place. That as a result of this mentality, something about the final decades of the USSR as well as the new Russia crystallises in her, making Demidova the perfect focal point for a meditation on several separate questions, sketches of other creative geniuses, all of them crisscrossing through her life and career. All of which makes What Beat You Nothing a most unusual undertaking, for it is not only a classical portrait of an artist, but an essay, a series of thoughts and observations that take Demidova as a starting point and finishing line.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2022
- Length
- 132"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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