107 Mothers
By Peter Kerekes
Leysa is convicted of the murder of her husband. She gives birth to her son in a prison for young mothers and is allowed to stay with him for three years before they are separated, until the end of her sentence. This extraordinarily sensitive film shifts between fiction and documentary: Leysa is played by an actress, but the other characters are real guards and prisoners in the Odessa prison where this deeply moving film was shot.
French-speaking Switzerland cinema release : 20 April, 2022
Section Competition - Fiction
Original language(s) Ukrainian & Russian
Subtitle(s) French, English & German
- Director(s)
- Peter Kerekes
- Writer(s)
- Ivan Ostrochovský & Peter Kerekes
Casting
- Iryna Kiryazeva
- Maryna Klimova
- Lyubov Vasylyna
Distributor
- trigon-film
Production
- Punkchart films
- Endorfilm
- Arthouse Traffic
- Hypermarket Film
Cinematographer
- Martin Kollár
Music
- Lucia Chutkova
Sound
- Michael Gabor
- Tobias Potocny
Editor
- Thomas Ernst
- Martin Piga
- Duration
- 93'
- Production country
- Slovakia, Czech Republic & Ukraine
- Status
- Swiss Premiere
Sunday 6 March
16:30
Grütli - Salle Langlois
Friday 11 March
21:00
Grütli - Salle Simon
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