Nakam
A short film on a big subject. A 12-year-old boy taking on a huge burden. A true story from World War Two, reimagined only slightly, sees young violin prodigy Mitka (Anton Krymskiy) smuggle explosives into the bar where he works in a desperate bid to assassinate a group of SS commanders. The partisans backing him are trying to turn the tide of the war. He’s looking for revenge for his murdered family. The problem is that blowing up the bar could also cost the life of pianist Yegor (Yevgeni Sitokhin), his only friend.
This is Nakam, the Oscar-shortlisted short film by Andreas Kessler. I met up with the young German filmmaker just a short time after he received the news.
“We're really excited,” he says, his face shining. “I'm really excited that we got onto the shortlist and everything, and we'll see how it goes. But yeah, we were really,...
A short film on a big subject. A 12-year-old boy taking on a huge burden. A true story from World War Two, reimagined only slightly, sees young violin prodigy Mitka (Anton Krymskiy) smuggle explosives into the bar where he works in a desperate bid to assassinate a group of SS commanders. The partisans backing him are trying to turn the tide of the war. He’s looking for revenge for his murdered family. The problem is that blowing up the bar could also cost the life of pianist Yegor (Yevgeni Sitokhin), his only friend.
This is Nakam, the Oscar-shortlisted short film by Andreas Kessler. I met up with the young German filmmaker just a short time after he received the news.
“We're really excited,” he says, his face shining. “I'm really excited that we got onto the shortlist and everything, and we'll see how it goes. But yeah, we were really,...
- 1/4/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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