Номери
Numbers
Drehbuch:
Oleh SentsovKamera:
Adam SikoraMusik:
Milosh ElichBesetzung:
Виктор Андриенко, Lorena Kolibabchuk, Ирина Мак, Denis Rodnyanskiy, Viktor Zhdanov, Evhen Chernykov, Oleksandr Yarema, Maksym DevizorovInhalte(1)
The world as an absurdly abstract one-room cosmos. Ten figures are practising daily rituals, walking in circles. They do not know who they are or where they come from, nor do they have names. The men wear odd numbers, the women even numbers. Their dating behaviour, like everything else, is subject to rules that are as strict as they are pointless. An omnipresent, godlike leader (“The Great Zero”) surveys the goings-on; judges are armed. This is a system of governance that leads to the elimination of all independence – but then an unplanned child disturbs the order. The time is ripe again for dystopian stories. Simultaneously, Nomera is a film that has fallen out of time: it was created under impossible circumstances and in an existential vacuum. The writer and co-director is Oleg Sentsov, Russia’s most famous political prisoner from 2014 to 2019. Somewhere between the filming location of Kyiv and the penal colony near Labytnangi, close to the Arctic Circle, where Sentsov was imprisoned, a laborious, clandestine working method evolved that contributed to the end of Sentsov’s hunger strike and has now resulted in a film of raw political significance. (Berlinale)
(mehr)Kritiken (1)
I don't mind that the plot is set in theatrically stylized settings, as long as the film's concept resonates with me. In a metaphorical representation of a kind of totalitarian dictatorship, Oleg Sentsov points to the real danger that arises from the euphoria that the rebels possess when they succeed in overthrowing the hated regime. As suggested here, it may ultimately be the beginning of an even more monstrous domination than the previous one. Numbers is worth watching, at least for its powerful final minutes, which send chills down the spine. (65%)
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