OLGA

| 2021  –  85′  – Drama – France/Switzerland

Written by: Elie Grappe, Raphaëlle Desplechin.
Directed by: Elie Grappe.
Starring: Anastasia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Théa Brogli, Caterina Barloggio, Jérôme Martin, Alicia Onomor.
Official selection Cannes Critic’s Week 2021. Switzerland’s Official Entry for the 2022 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Official competition COLCOA 2021
In French, Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber film release. |

Olga is a driven 15-year-old gymnast training for the Olympics in Kiev in 2013. Her mother is an outspoken journalist with their dictatorial President Yanukovych in her crosshairs. As a result, both of their lives are in danger. So, Olga is sent off to the safe haven of Switzerland, with the hope of joining the Swiss Olympic team. Almost documentary-like in its realism, Elie Grappe’s riveting portrait of a determined young athlete, set against the backdrop of a revolution unfolding in Ukraine, is as much a balletic ode to the passion and discipline of athletes everywhere, as an exploration of the profound, unyielding power of national identity. 

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