Tell mom (2001)

Documentary №62343, 2 parts, duration: 0:19:59
Production: LSDF
Director:P.Kozhevnikov
Screenwriters:P.Kozhevnikov
Camera operators:M.Mass
Composers:A.Rumyancev
Sound producer:L.Lerner

Annotation:

Film about the fate of a large family belonging to the "socially vulnerable" segments of the population. Heroes - dying grandmother, a drunken sister-in-law and her five children, of whom the eldest son in a mental hospital, the average in the area, the youngest – registered in OPP, and two daughters, contained in an orphanage, adopted by U.S. citizens.

Reel №1

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Sleeping boy on the bed in the room.

Rural landscape, summer - river, shore, stone in the water.

The woman wakes up the boy, the boy barely wakes up.

Children run along the path to the river, a wooden two-story house is visible in the background.

Children run to the riverbank, throwing off their clothes as they go.

A woman (a social worker), sitting at a table in the office, talks about her children-wards, there is a cage on the table in the office, budgies fly.

Large - group photo of children behind the glass cabinet.

Painted concrete wall - blue heart with arrow, etc.

A dog is sleeping on the couch, a panorama of the room, around the mess, dirt, scattered things.

Says a female social worker.

Large - group b/w photo of children.

Says a female social worker, in the frame of the photo on the table, a cage with a parrot.

Large - group b/w photo of children.

Young men in the room, sitting at the table, a guy playing guitar, singing a thug prison song.

Panorama of a room in the colony, in the frame of made beds, bedside tables, etc.

The view from the window on the yard of the colony, in the frame of prisoners, fence, barbed wire, brick building.

Prisoners in the window.

The prisoners are sitting by the fence.

Prisoners on the territory of the colony, enter the gate.

A large -young guy in a black T-shirt.

A station, a crossing, a freight train is passing, there is a spontaneous flea market on the ground near the railway tracks, there is a trade.

Large - different goods on the ground, sellers are sitting under umbrellas.

One of the saleswomen tells about her joyless life.

Prison and prisoners.

A woman and a boy bring a transfer to the prison and talk on the internal phone with a young prisoner.

The head of the prison tells about the fate of the prisoner

Key words

Зэки, заключенные, колония, социальная служба, опека, усыновление

Seasons: Summer [824]

Reel №2

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Petersburg.

Kazan Cathedral Square.

A boy is walking down the street.

The mother came on a date with her son at a psychiatric clinic.

The other son, a boy of about 12 years old, swears profanely at his mother and brother.

The head doctor of the psychiatric hospital explains to the young man that he can leave the hospital because he has been cured.

Cemetery, graves.

The grandmother of a complex large family tells about the life of this family.

An alcoholic mother with shaking hands, a boy and a grandmother are eating soup in a dirty and peeling kitchen.

A neighbor who came to visit a dirty apartment with things scattered everywhere tells an alcoholic mom that younger children will be in foster care in America until they come of age.

Painted walls of an apartment building.

Key words

Psychiatric hospital, alcoholics, apartment in terrible condition.

Movie №1

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