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The Green Elephant

Svetlana Baskova

Experimental film / Feature film | Russie | Betacam SP/PAL | 4:3 | color | mono | 1999 | 90'  00"
180 €

Original title: Зелёный Слоник Screening Copy: digital
Two ex-soldiers of the Russian army , prisoners in a Gulag, who await their execution, become the victims of sadistic plays on behalf of their Bourreaux… The Green elephant is the second film of Svetlana Baskova, a professional artist who entirely carried out this project with his numerical video camera and of the friends to it, also artists. The total costs of film did not exceed 200 euros. The film had right only to only one projection, with the Festival of Rotterdam in 1999. The extreme violence and the cruelty of the images of film shocked many spectators who left is while crying, while shouting or while vomitting. The Scandale was such as the director was banished of her country and its film accepted a prohibition of projection in the whole world. The film however had a small success these last years thanks to Internet near the amateurs of Gore and followers of this kind of causing cinema.

Credits

Director: Svetlana Baskova

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