Drawing on extensive research, remarkable rare archival footage and access to fascinating individuals, Women’s Day focuses on women from very different backgrounds and achievements. In intimate conversations with the director Dolya Gavanski they express their inner thoughts, fears and feelings.
About film
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Women’s Day explores, amongst other things: surviving the siege of Leningrad in subzero temperatures; the challenge of sex in communal flats; how to smuggle forbidden literature; how to fly into space, how to rename a husband and how to perform the perfect Soviet balletic pirouette. Not to mention the political and cultural complexity of the burning of veils….
Original Title:
Женский день
Direction:
Dolya Gavanski
Duration:
85 mins
Year:
2019
Audio:
Russian, Bulgarian
Subtitles:
CZ, EN, SK, HR, RO
Country:
Germany, Bulgaria, United Kingdom , Russia
Producer:
Dolya Gavanski
Production:
Thea Films
Distribution:
WIDE HOUSE
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