Boris Khlebnikov : 2013
A Long and Happy Life
Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love affair with Anya, a secretary at the local government office. But then Sascha is suddenly faced with a dilemma: the district's self-seeking administrators, none of whom could be termed squeamish, offer him a lucrative deal for the farm. In legal terms, Sascha doesn't have much of a leg to stand on since his lease on the farm was only agreed with a handshake. The pressure mounts, and even more so when his employees convince him to stand firm. Against the backdrop of a landscape exposed to the elements, this unflinching man's destiny takes its course. The tragedy of a decent man who risks everything that is dear to him by refusing to surrender to a quagmire of greed and corruption. Boris Khlebnikov's feature premiered in competition at Berlin International Film Festival 2013.
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