RUSSENBUS Berlin - Moscow

by Nina Irina Roerig
  • 2003 Axel Brandt
  • 2003 Axel Brandt

    Synopsis

    A bus ride from Berlin to Moscow takes 36 hours. During this journey there is plenty of time for the thoughts and hopes of the passengers. Some are emigrants visiting home, others return home and they are uprooted by the social upheavals. This fact makes them watchful observers of the present in the East as well as in the West. They will probably never meet again, but on this busride they are a community: Natasha, the Berlin-based actress, Yuri, who has a child in Berlin that he is not allowed to meet, Galina, who moved to Germany after her husband was murdered by the Mafia, Alexei and Maxim, the Moscow break dancers who collected money perfoming in the streets of Berlin, Nikolai, the opera singer on the way to his mother...

    with: Natalia Bondar, Nikolay Borchev, Elena Arsenieva, Alexej Merslikin and others.

    Festivals

    2003 63th Berlinale Talent Campus, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, World Premiere
    DOK.fest Munich 2003, Jekaterinburg 2004

    Planet-TV/STERN Documentary Award 2003,
    Winner of Documentary Film Festival Saratov 2004