Mariana’s Room
A film by Emmanuel Finkiel, 2023-
Genre: Drame
Language: French, Ukrainian
Subtitles: French – English
Format: xxx
Sound: xxx
Duration: 95′
Countries: France, Belgium, Hungary, Israël
Year: 2023
SYNOPSIS
-1943, on the borders of Ukraine and Poland. Fleeing the ghetto and deportation, Yulia entrusts her son Hugo, aged 11, to a childhood friend, Mariana, aged 35, who works as a prostitute in a brothel. Reclined in a windowless room adjoining the young woman’s bedroom, his life is suspended on the noises and scenes he catches a glimpse of through the partition. With his imagination as his only resource, Hugo becomes aware both of the massacres being perpetrated and of the mysteries of sexuality. When day breaks, Mariana invites him into her bedroom, enveloping him in softness and voluptuousness. Soon life will conquer death, soon Hugo will be a young man.
CREDITS
-Director: Emmanuel Finkiel
Script: Emmanuel Finkiel
Image: Alexis Kavyrchine
Sound: Antoine-Basil Mercier
Art Director: Yvett Roscheid
Costume Designer: Gaëtane Paulus
Make up: Anna Gerö
Editod: Anne Weil
Sound Editor : Paul Heymans
Casting: Mélanie Thierry, Artem Kyryk, Julia Goldberg, Yona Rozenkier, Minou Monfared
French Distribution : Ad Vitam
International Sales: WestEnd