- Original name: Gunda
- Country: Norway, USA
- Genre: documentary
- Producer: Victor Kosakovsky
- World premiere: 23 february 2020
- Premiere in Russia: 2020
- Duration: 93 minutes
In 2020, at the 70th Berlin Film Festival, the black and white film "Gunda", the work of one of the most famous Russian documentary filmmakers, Viktor Kosakovsky, was screened. The release date and plot of the film are known, the trailer is presented below. The film raises the problem of the relationship between people and nature, especially that part of it that people have remade for themselves. The main character is Gunda the pig and her piglets. Here you will not hear a single human dialogue - only animals, chickens, pigs, cows living on a farm, but whose fate is predetermined.
Expectations rating - 97%. IMDb rating - 7.7.
About the plot
Not only humans are capable of experiencing feelings, but also the animals with whom we share our planet. Depicting the life of Gunda the pig with piglets and her farm neighbors, two cows and a chicken, the film makes you think about the innate value of life and the mystery of the universe. There are no words or musical accompaniment in the picture, only sounds of nature and close-ups of the inhabitants of the farm.
About production
The director's chair was taken by Viktor Kosakovsky ("Aquarelle", "Long live the antipodes!", "Hush!"),
About the offscreen team:
- Screenplay: V. Kosakovsky, Ainara Vera ("Watercolor");
- Producers: Anita Rehoff Larsen ("69 minutes in 86 days"), Jocelyn Barnes ("Capernaum"), Tone Gretjord ("Maiko: The Dancing Child"), etc .;
- Operators: V. Kosakovsky, Egil Haskold Larsen;
- Editing: V. Kosakovsky, A. Vera.
Studios: Louverture Films, Sant & Usant.
Interesting that
Facts:
- The camera watches Gunda pig and her piglets from the moment they are born.
- The executive producer is Joaquin Phoenix.
The film "Gunda" (2020) was redeemed for Russian distribution, but the exact release date is still unknown. The trailer is already online.
