''Orlean'' (russian: Орлеан) is a 2015

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n film directed by Andrey Proshkin, screenplay by

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. The film participated in the competition program of the XXXVII

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. For her starring role, Elena Lyadova was awarded the prize Silver George for Best Actress.

Plot

The small town of Orlean, located on the shores of the

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in the Altai steppe. In the hospital room where after yet another

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the local beauty Lidka lies, appears a strange gentleman who identifies himself as Pavlyuchek, executioner. His questions drive Lidka to hysterics and she runs for help to her friend surgeon Rudik. In a changed appearance the clerk appears in the apartment of Rudik, where lies his paralyzed father in a bad condition.

Cast

Elena Lyadova Elena Igorevna Lyadova (russian: Еле́на И́горевна Ля́дова; born 25 December 1980) is a Russian actress. In 2002, she graduated from Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School in Moscow, Russia. Her film credits include ''Elena' ...

as Lidka * Oleg Yagodin as Rudik * Vitaly Khaev as Nevolin *

Viktor Sukhorukov Viktor Ivanovich Sukhorukov PAR (russian: Виктор Иванович Сухоруков; born 10 November 1951) is a Russian actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1974. He starred in '' Happy Days'' (1991), ...

as Executioner * Timofey Tribuntsev as Borya Amaretto * Pavel Tabakov as Igor

Criticism

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: In this literature-centric and one hundred percent acting film, given its specific genre, it was easy to fall into the slapstick, as in tartare. But in this lies the director's courage and skill of Andrey Proshkin. *

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: It is difficult to watch this film - just like a human being: there is practically no sense of taste in it, and there are tangible problems with a sense of proportion. *

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: Andrey Proshkin's film has a rare, inexplicable quality of appeal to the future (at the same time, we still understand that 99 percent of the rest of today's films are directed to the past or to nothing at all). At the same time the film has a rare charge of positivity. You literally leave the cinema with the feeling that victory is near.Зло побеждает зло
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References

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