RUSSIA
“They Call Him Russia!”
Overview
Shot on a single roll of Super 8mm film, with no editing or retakes, RUSSIA follows a poor young man from the Egyptian countryside as he confronts a haunting memory of his past and the lingering weight of his actions. Inspired by Emad Abu Saleh’s poem “Killer.”
Cast
Aziz Al Gazzar
Russia
Mohamed Ali Ahmed
The Young Man
Reem Tarek
The Young Woman
- Director
- Marwan Hmam
- Country
- Egypt
- Rating source
- TMDB
- Keywords
- #egypt, #egyptian countryside, #experimental, #guilt, #memory, #past, #poetry, #poverty, #regret, #remorse, #rural egypt, #rural life, #super-8, #trauma, #young man
