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Located 190 miles from Moscow, Efremov is an unremarkable provincial town, part-rural, part-urban. Its citizens seem stuck there, bogged down and out-of-synch, unable to survive anywhere else. Such writers as Turgenyev and Paustovsky stopped off in Efremov to get a better look at this real Russia which resists any attempts at change with lethargy. Ten years ago, director Iossif Pastenak shot a chronicle of this city after the collapse of the Soviet system. Today, Pasternak returns to Efremov, its silences and muddy streets, to capture the faces, gazes and destinies of those who, far from events, are living through this watershed.

France - 2004 - 52 mn - DV - Colour

Director Iossif Pasternak Writer Iossif Pasternak, Hélène Châtelain Camera Iouri Orlov Sound Iouri Diomkine Editing Iossif Pasternak

Production Roche Productions, 45 rue de Louvain, 92400 Courbevoie, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4334 0712 Fax : +33 (0)1 4334 0724 E-mail : roche@rocheproductions.com Co-Production ARTE France with the participation of Planète, Voyage, YLE Teema

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