DIRECTOR: Kira Muratova
PRODUCER: Grigory Kogan
PRODUCTION CO: Odessa Film Studio
SCREENPLAY: Natalya Ryazantseva
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gennadi Karyuk
EDITOR: Valentina Oleinik
MUSIC: Oleg Karavaychuk
WITH: Zinaida Sharko (Yevgenia Vasilyevna Ustinova), Oleg Vladimirsky (Sasha Ustinov), Yuri Kayurov (Nikolai Sergeyevich), Lidia Dranovskaya (Vykhodtseva), Viktor Ilchenko (Pavel Konstantinovich), Lidiya Brazilskaya (Tonya), Svetlana Kabanova (Tatiana Kartseva)

​FESTIVALS: Locarno

REVIEW

“This pointillist family portrait by Kira Muratova is one of the bracingly original Soviet filmmaker’s long-banned major works. A kind of psychological breakup movie, The Long Farewell traces the rift that grows between an emotionally impulsive single mother (the transcendent Zinaida Sharko) and her increasingly resentful teenage son (Oleg Vladimirsky), who upends her world when he announces he wishes to live with his faraway father. The seemingly simple premise is rendered anything but simple by Muratova’s dreamy, drifting style, with off-kilter framing, editing, and dialogue continually pushing cinema’s aesthetic and expressive boundaries outward.”

– Janus Films

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Palmerston North
Wednesday, 03 April, 6.00pm

​Whanganui   
Monday, 20 May, 7.00pm
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Nelson 
Wednesday, 26 June, 6.00pm

Auckland      
Monday, 08 July, 6.15pm 

Hamilton
Monday, 29 July, 6.30pm

Dunedin  
Wednesday, 04 September, 7.30pm

​Wellington  
Monday, 02 December, 6.15pm
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