Directed by:
Igor VoloshinScreenplay:
Igor VoloshinCinematography:
Dmitriy YashonkovCast:
Artur Smolyaninov, Oksana Akinshina, Alexej Polujan, Anna Mikhalkova, Ольга Симонова, Aleksey Gorbunov, Mariya Shalaeva, Aleksey Filimonov, Evgeniy Tkachuk (more)Plots(1)
A young man who writes avant-garde plays in the Russian province tells the story of how he voluntarily let himself be admitted to a psychiatric ward to avoid military service. In his account, everyday scenes from the madhouse and childhood memories alternate with parables that have been converted into aesthetically decadent images. "Ya" means "I". Just as the apostles once narrated the life of Jesus, "ya" narrates the life of the clique that has gathered around the "savior" Rom, an icon of the drugs scene and depravity. "Ya" does not even ask who are the real madmen – the patients or the doctors? Nor does it make a difference whether the narrator is hallucinating or whether he is staging a Baroque anti-biblical opera. (Berlinale)
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Artur Smolyaninov
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