No Place For Fools
Filmfest 2015
OT: DURAKAM ZDES' NE MESTO
Bulgaria, Russia, USA 2014
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Russian)
German Premiere
Director: Oleg Mavromatti
Section: International Independents
This film is about a lonely Russian homosexual, a real person, who is also an anti-gay Orthodox Christian pro-Putin activist. These two identities that thoroughly contradict each other, unfold in his video blog in a chaotic schizophrenic mixture of images and sounds. The chaos of these countless video-confessions has been directed and cut together in a clear structure by Oleg Mavromatti. Mavromatti also had researched and collected an enormous amount of youtube videos – which the film is entirely made of – to set the context, in which his character can blossom and decay. Mavromatti's intellectual montage of this footage shows how the life of the individual is directly affected by the smallest changes in Russia's political climate...
SUPERNOVA, CINEFANTOM
With: (Dokumentarfilm) Sergey Astahov
Credits
Screenplay: Oleg Mavromatti
Original Material: Oleg Mavromatti, PO98
Film Editor: Oleg Mavromatti, Boryana Rossa
Sound: Tihon Pendyrin
Producer: Boryana Dragoeva Rossa
Production Company: SUPERNOVA
Co-Producer: Andrey Silvestrov
Co-Production Company: CINEFANTOM
Director: Oleg Mavromatti