No-One (2018 film) explained

No-One
Director:Lev Prudkin, Vladimir Prudkin
Music:Evsey Evseyev
Cinematography:Ziv Berkovich
David Stragmeister
Boris Litovchenko
Producer:Vladimir Prudkin
Runtime:117 minutes
Language:Russian

No-One is a 2018 Israeli-Ukrainian film written and directed by Vladimir Prudkin and Lev Prudkin.[1] [2] The film premiered at the 40th Moscow International Film Festival on April 23, 2018.[3] The film won the awards for Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Vienna Independent Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Winchester Film Festival and other awards at international film festivals. It was presented at the Marché du Film of the 74th Festival de Cannes on July 10, 2021.[4]

Synopsis

Mysterious events happen in Crimea during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

NO-ONE is a family revenge story that turns into a parable of eternal return and historical guilt. It is an unusual anti-version of Shakespeare's Othello, where the Renaissance characters and events are depicted in a parallel reality in Russia during the military coup of 1991. Venice is replaced by Moscow, Cyprus – by Crimea; the Venetian general Othello becomes a general of the Russian secret police and the insidious schemer Iago, Othello's standard-bearer – an elite student, nephew of the Russian general. All this in a strange way corresponds to Shakespeare's oeuvre, but at some point the events and character relations as if instigated by irresistible forces of fate, start to move away from the familiar plot. The main character is a brilliantly educated and artistically gifted general serving a cruel and blood-drenched organization; he harbors no illusions about the world around him, constantly changes masks and roles, always remaining at the top. Nevertheless, karmic forces pull events and people around him into a deadly vortex of infidelities and defeats. Betrayals cling to one another, and the inevitable becomes reality.

Cast

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NO-ONE: a different view on the collapse of the USSR. Russian Art and Culture. Olga Pogodina. 2019-02-12.
  2. Web site: Revenge Beyond the Iron Curtain. Winchester Today. 2019-02-01.
  3. Web site: Israeli-Ukraine film NO-ONE with Elizaveta Boyarskaya participates in the program "Russian Trace" of the Moscow International Film Festival 2018. The Hollywood Reporter. ru.
  4. Web site: KGB, Shibari and inverted Zen of Soviet history.
  5. Web site: NO-ONE by Lev and Vladimir Prudkin triumphs in Vienna. Kramer. Günther. 2018-07-13. Indie Cinema Magazine. en-US. 2019-01-18.
  6. Web site: Winchester Film Festival. Tuesday 29 January – NO-ONE. 2018-05-23. en-US. 2019-01-18.
  7. Web site: SGS On Film. Review: NO-ONE. 2021-10-08. en-US. 2021-11-25.

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