Films by Olga Delane

2018, 20 min
by Olga Delane

In the Siberian countryside, marriage is traditionally seen as the greatest achievable happiness for a woman. But the 80-year-old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka, has always remained alone. At the kitchen table, she contemplates life, love, regret and loneliness – has she maybe brought this fate upon herself? The film is a spinoff of a film that screened at IDFA 2016 any many other international film festivals, SIBERIAN LOVE, in which filmmaker Olga Delane explored the same views on love and m

Germany 2016, 82 min
by Olga Delane

After living for 20 years in Berlin, Olga Delane returns to her family in Siberia. Members of her familiy and the village community comment on her modern, single life in the city, and tell her about their own none-too-happy marriages. Their relationships are traditional and practical: the man is the head of the household, the woman takes care of the housekeeping – and in fact, everything else. And what about love? “Love, marriage, it’s only a custom,” an elderly woman says. “If your husband hits

2015, 86 min
by Marianne Kapfer, Olga Delane

In Krasnokamensk in the Siberian Steppe, near the Chinese border, is Russia's largest uranium mine.Founded 40 years ago, with 55 000 inhabitants, - it has been a secret city for a long time. Only after the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned there Krasnokamensk appeared in the world. The verdict on the city was unanimous: 'contaminated, condemned, abandoned.'Krasnokamensk is the hometown of Olga Delane. In 1993 at the age of sixteen she left her birthplace for Germany. Now Olga visited