Movie

Maria

Мария

A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria Semionovna, scenes of the colours of summer time: hay–making, bathing in a river, work in the flax fields and a holiday in the Crimea. The second chapter, set nine years later, is in black and white and deals with how Maria Semionovna's life ended. The mood is one of a sad and elegiac narration.

Director

Aleksandr Sokurov

Screenplay

Aleksandr Sokurov

Status

Released

Release date

01/11/1988

Original language

Russian