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PITCH (Korobka) dir. Eduard Bordukov
Duration: 104 min Country: Russia Language: Russian Available subtitles: English, Deutsch WATCH: Vimeo (Worldwide) / Payhip (World) / Amazon US / Amazon UK / Amazon.de / Amazon.co.jp |
Kostya and his friends love nothing more than playing soccer at their local pitch. One day, Kostya’s team comes head to head with Damir, a professional footballer and his friends from the Caucasus region. With neither group willing to share the pitch, and with inter-ethnic tensions rising, they decide to hold a tournament, with the winner keeping the pitch for themselves.
PITCH is an exhilarating coming-of-age drama that explores the inter-ethnic tensions and societal pressures of modern day Russia via the camaraderie and one upmanship of the football pitch.
PITCH is an exhilarating coming-of-age drama that explores the inter-ethnic tensions and societal pressures of modern day Russia via the camaraderie and one upmanship of the football pitch.
WRITTEN BY: Eduard Bordukov
CAST: Sergey Romanovich, Kirill Degtyar, Sergey Podolnyy
PRODUCED BY: Elena Glikman, Mikhail Degtyar, Yaroslav Jivov
CAST: Sergey Romanovich, Kirill Degtyar, Sergey Podolnyy
PRODUCED BY: Elena Glikman, Mikhail Degtyar, Yaroslav Jivov
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
This is a story about football, about youth, about plentiful energy. It shows how, in an aggressive world, modern young people can use their energy in peaceful ways. In our huge country people of different ethnic origins really need to find points in common. People who live side by side cannot insulate themselves. The small stadium that serves as a focus for the main part of the film is a metaphor of the city, of the country, of the world.