Sashenka (2022)
In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, the fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother's pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka as a girl, dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations.
Director:
Oleksandr Zhovna
Writer:
Oleksandr Zhovna
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Dmitry Nizhelsky as Sashenka |
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Oksana Burlay-Piterova as Sasha's mom |
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Milena Kompaniiets as Lena |
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Dmytro Orlov as Kolya |
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Victor Rybchinskiy as Sasha's dad |
| Camera | Sergey Kolbinev | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Oleksandr Zhovna | Screenplay |
| Directing | Oleksandr Zhovna | Director |
| Production | Oleksandr Zhovna | Producer |
| Production | Evgeny Sivkov | Producer |
