Core of the World
Serdtse Mira
Nataliia Meshchaninova
Egor is a 25-year-old vet on a rural farm which doubles as a hunting dog training centre using domesticated foxes. Although he is a grown man, deep inside he is a wounded child who finds it easier to get along with animals than with people. In desperate need of a controlled environment after a violent past relationship with his mother, all he wants is to care for the animals and to feel part of the close-knit family he works for. When animal rights activists invade this fragile microcosm, upsetting its delicate balance, Egor's world begins to crumble...
With : Stepan Devonin, Dmitriy Podnozov, Jana Sekste, Vitya Ovodkov, Evgeniy Sytyy, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Elena Papanova
Screenplay : Natalia Meshchaninova avec la participation de Boris Khlebnikov et Stepan Devonin
Image : Evgeniy Tsvetkov
Sound : Saulius Urbanavicius
Editing : Dasha Danilova
Screenplay : Natalia Meshchaninova avec la participation de Boris Khlebnikov et Stepan Devonin
Image : Evgeniy Tsvetkov
Sound : Saulius Urbanavicius
Editing : Dasha Danilova
Production : Sergey Selyanov et Natalia Drozd (CTB Film Company), Dagne Vildziunaite (Just A Moment)
International sales: Martin Gondre (Indie Sales)
International sales: Martin Gondre (Indie Sales)
In 2007, Nataliia Meshchaninova directed the documentary Herbarium, winner of first prize at Kinoteatr.DOC. In 2010, with Valeriya Gai Germanika and Ruslan Malikov, she directed the series Skhola (School). In 2014 the drama Kombinat ‘Nadezhda' (The Hope Factory), her first feature, competed at the Rotterdam Festival and was acclaimed by Russian critics as the best debut of the year. In 2015, with the participation of Sergey Sentsov, she directed the series Krasnye braslety (The Red Bracelets). Serdtse Mira (Core of the World) is her second feature film.
“We have three dogs in our family and I know what training facilities are like. I introduced them deliberately into my film. It offers an ambivalent stand on issues of hunting, training, captive foxes, hunting dogs, and the relations between them all. It is not exactly what you would expect. There is no right and no wrong in our film, no good and no evil. Everyone is in their own subjective right, and there is actually no such thing as objective, impersonal reality”.
Nataliia Meshchaninova
“We have three dogs in our family and I know what training facilities are like. I introduced them deliberately into my film. It offers an ambivalent stand on issues of hunting, training, captive foxes, hunting dogs, and the relations between them all. It is not exactly what you would expect. There is no right and no wrong in our film, no good and no evil. Everyone is in their own subjective right, and there is actually no such thing as objective, impersonal reality”.
Nataliia Meshchaninova