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“17th of August” ... 17th of August (17 sierpnia) is a 2009 polish documentary, written and directed by Aleksander Gutman.


1 Plot 2 Film release 2.1 Festivals 2.2 Awards 2.3 Television screenings 3 See also 4 External links

Genre Documentary Year of production 2009 Country of production Poland, Russia International premiere 12.08.2009 Language Polish Running time 54' Director Aleksander Gutman Screenwriter Aleksander Gutman Director of photography Maksim Efros Nikołaj Wołkow Aleksander Gutman Sound Leonid Lerner Editing Aleksander Gutman Music Władymir Tarasow Rip sound Aleksander Dudariew Color correction Konstantin Firiewicz Editor's assistant Jelena Arno Władymir Łokotko Iwan Opienyszew Translation Radosław Gębicz Production manager Tatiana Jakowlewa (Rosja/Russia) Agnieszka Janowska Production cooperation Radosław Gębicz Aleksandra Weyna Producer Aleksander Gutman Krzysztof Kopczyński Co-producer Witold Będkowski (TVP) Production Atelier Film-Alexandr eureka media telewizja polska Co-financing Yleisradio (Finland) Studio filmow dokumentalnych (Russia) Russian culture and art Foundation 1. Plot The thing is happening a long way from Moscow, amid the forests of the Russian North, between Vologda and Archangel, on an island lying in one of the lakes, in an Orthodox monastery built in the sixteenth century. In Soviet times this monastery was converted into a harsh regime prison, as were many all over the whole country, because after the acceptance of the death penalty moratorium in 1993 it was there that the first prisoners for life went. Currently there are 142 prisoners there. One of them, Boris Bezoteczestwo, is the hero of the film. Boris has been sentenced to life imprisonment for triple murder. The film tells about one day in the life of a man, who now will never leave his cell. We observe not only routine activities, such as the prisoner performs every day. Primarily we accompany him in ceaseless consideration, of what he succeeded and what he failed to achieve before committing the crime, in his prayers and discussions with God, and also in returning to occurrences, which once seemed to him to be completely ordinary, and today seems to be distant and completely unreal. It is interesting, how the convict creates his imaginations of reality that is already inaccessible to him. The film shows prison life and the external world, which the convict does not see, but its echoes reach him in the form of fragmentary words of the guards, incidental sounds and noises. From these fragments Boris Bezoteczestwo creates for himself an image of the world, from which he came but to which he shall now never return.

2. Film release 2.1 Festivals


2011 - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia [1]


2010 - 21st Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy [2]


2010 - One World Romania, Bucharest, Romania [3]


2010 – BAFICI, Buenos Aires, Argentina [4]


2010 - 7th Film Festival Planete Doc Review, Warsaw, Poland [5]


2010 - Prix Europa 2010, Berlin , Germany [6]


2010 - Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai, India [7]


2010 - Film Festival Doc Point, Helsinki, Finland [8]


2010 - Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece [9]


2010 - 10. Documenta Madrid, Spain [10]


2010 - International Film Festival "Message to Man", Sankt Petersburg, Russia [11]


2010 - Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Sardinia, Italy [12]


2010 - Festival “Anûû-rû Aboro", New Caledonia


2010 - Montreal International Documentary Film Festival, Montreal, Canada [13]


2009 - Two Riversides, Festival of Film and Art, Kazimierz Dolny, Janowiec, Poland [14]


2009 - 62nd Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland [15]


2009 - 52nd International Documentary and Animation Film Festival in Lipsk, germany [16]


2.2 Awards 2011 - Golden Plaque on Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia [17]

2010 - Golden Conch - Best Documentary at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival , Mumbai, India [18]

2010 - Special Award at the Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy [19]

2010 – Special mention at the Prix Europa Festival, Berlin, Germany

2010 - Special Prize of Festival Message to Man, Sankt Petersburg, Russia [20]

2010 - Special Mention of Jury at Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Italy [21]

2010 - Special Jury Priize at Festival “Anûû-rû Aboro", New Caledonia

2010 - Prix Image - special mention at Montreal International Documentary Film Festival, Canada [22]

2010 - Special Mention, 52nd International of Documentary and Animation Films in Lipsk, Germany [23]


2.3 Television screenings The film was screened on YLE TV2 (a Finnish channel) in 2009.

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3. See also wikipedia : Krzysztof Kopczynski wikipedia : 24 Days wikipedia : 52 Percent wikipedia : Al. Tribute to A. Maysles wikipedia : Borovichok wikipedia : Change Me Into a Long Serpent wikipedia : Conductor Paradox wikipedia : Deyna wikipedia : Farewell, Comrades ! wikipedia : I, Gombro wikipedia : Kites wikipedia : Long-distance Runner wikipedia : Planet Kirsan wikipedia : Seweryn – actor/acteur wikipedia : Stone Silence wikipedia : Swietlik wikipedia : The Art of Silence wikipedia : The First Day wikipedia : The Forest wikipedia : The Last Generation wikipedia : The Noble Breed – Can Success be bred? wikipedia : The World Stands Open wikipedia : Towards Poland wikipedia : The Unemployed wikipedia : Warsaw Available wikipedia : Zbig (Zbigniew Rybczyński)