在这部饥渴剧情片中,Brooklyn’s Dweck Center presents another installment in the on-going Russian film series! This month, the Center presents “Thirst” (Zhazhda). This feature film, based on the novel of the same name by Andrei Gelasimov. Kostya is a young army veteran whose life is divided into two parts: before Chechnya and after. Disfigured in battle, he returns home and turns to alcohol until his five-year-old neighbor draws him from his isolation. Dir: Dmitri Tiurin (Russia; 2013; 102 min)
Kostya's life is split in two: before and after the war in Chechnya. And the worst thing is that during the last fight he was badly burned in a tank. Doctors saved his life but half of his face looks miserable. Now he lives alone in total isolation, and spends his time on painting and drinking. The disappearance of his war-time friend Seryoga triggers a strange mechanism in Kostya, thanks to which he comes back to life again.
