Stop-Zemlia

Coming of Age/Everyday life, Ukraine 2022

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Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020 or thereabouts: Introverted high school student Masha sees herself as an outsider when she's not hanging out with Yana and Senia, who share her status as a nonconformist. While navigating an intense time before graduation, Masha falls in love and is forced to leave her comfort zone. This film provides a look into the hearts and lives of a group of teenagers in Ukraine. Stop Zemlia - stop the world! The cinematic narrative is repeatedly interrupted by interviews in which the director confronts the actors with questions about what is happening in the film. Asked whether those interview episodes were true or not, director Kateryna Gornostai said in an interview: "I can say that all the things we have in these interviews are both fictional and true. It was the actors’ decision to be honest or not about what exactly the true parts were. But I'm grateful to them that there is, in the end, a lot of truth in these interviews."
118 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
Ukrainian
Subtitles:
EnglishGerman

Awards

Berlinale Generation 14Plus Crystal Bear 2021
Five Lakes Main Award
KINOKOL - Ukrainian Critic's Award Best Film + 4 more awards, 2021

More information

Composer:

Maryana Klochko

Cast:

Maria Fedorchenko (Masha Chernykh)

Arsenii Markov (Senia Steshenko)

Yana Isaienko (Yana Bratiychuk)

Oleksandr Ivanov (Sasha Hanskyi)

Kateryna Gornostai (Cameo appearance)

Andrii Abalmazov (Andrii Klymyshyn)

Rubin Abukhatab (Rubin Zhuravlov)

Marharyta Astakhova (Margo Osipova)

Original title:

Стоп-Земля

Original language:

Ukrainian

Further titles:

Przystanek - Ziemia

Format:

1.85:1 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

Ukrainian

Subtitles:

EnglishGerman