Salamanca (Саламанка)
Overview
For generations, the Salamanca community of Mennonites has been living in the same modest and rigidly organized way. Modern-day scenes are accompanied by a voice-over narrating a man’s recollections of his youth. “As soon as I close my eyes,” he explains, “I go back to the past, to the moment when I made the choice that shaped my entire life.” Speaking in the Plautdietsch language, he talks calmly of the strong curiosity he felt as a young boy about the world beyond Salamanca and the Mennonite faith – a curiosity for which he paid dearly.
Key Crew
Director: Sasha Kulak, Ruslan Fedotov
Screenplay: Olga Polevikova
Producer: Pavel Karykhalin
Director of Photography: Ruslan Fedotov, Sasha Kulak
