Out of Competition

RUSSIAN WITCHHUNT
RUSSISCHE TREIBJAGD




Country of production: Germany
Year: 2002
Language: German
Mins: 45

Director: Udo Lielischkies
Script: Udo Lielischkies
Cinematography: Wladimir Poljanski, Fjodor Simmul, Garegin, Kotscharan
Producer: Arnd Henze
Production company: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koln
Source: Brigitte Mößner
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koln
Appellhofplatz 1
50600 Koln
GERMANY
Phone: +49 221 220 4726
brigitte.moessner@wdr.de
www.wdr.de

Olga Kitova may be the only honest person in Belograd, Russia. Now, she's going to pay for it.

Far from the metropoles of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Belograd has followed a different trajectory of Post-Soviet transformation. Here, statues of Lenin remain extremely prominent, and there is not even the pretense of an independent judiciary. Journalists should fear for their lives if they even dare investigate the most obvious of show trials.

Olga Kitova either doesn't hold that fear, or she doesn't care. For she has made herself the scourge of Belograd's power class. And when a blatantly ridiculous rape case emerges, she takes up the cause. Will it be her last?

Udo Lielischkies was born in 1953 in Cologne, Germany. He studied economics and sociology at the University of Cologne. He formerly worked as Brussels correspondent for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and since 1999 has been its Moscow correspondent.

filmography AS DIRECTOR
WILLKOMMEN AM ENDE DER WELT (2003)
RUSSISCHE TREIBJAGD (2002)
RAUBZUG IN DER TAIGA (2002)
BAUERN, BONZEN UND BANDITEN (2001)
TAIGA, TIGER, SCHWARZER DRACHE (2000)
KOMMISSARE AM ABGRUND (1998)
POLITIKER, PATEN UND PERVERSE (1997)
GASTROPOLIS (1996)

Saturday 10-Apr-2004 5:00 PM Gallery Theatre
Screening with PUTIN’S MAMA