Taskovski Films has picked up “Turn Your Body to the Sun,” which world premieres in the International Competition section of IDFA, one of the world’s top documentary film festivals. The sales agenc…
, one of the world’s top documentary film festivals. The sales agency is hoping to replicate the success it had with “Radiograph of a Family,” which won Best Feature-Length Documentary Award at last year’s festival., tells the story of a Soviet Tatar prisoner of war. After World War II, he is sent to one of Stalin’s brutal camps where the love for an unknown girl becomes his salvation. Sixty years later his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father.
Van der Horst commented: “I am convinced that Russia’s unresolved past strongly determines the present. My previous film, ‘Love Is Potatoes,’ dealt with Stalin’s inhuman treatment of the peasants and the resulting intergenerational traumas of my own peasant family. In my new film ‘Turn Your Body to the Sun’ I take a look at another part of Russian history: The fate of the World War II prisoners of war, but always with an eye to the ways in which history influences the present.
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