Special programme “Real Life”

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

1 hr. 46 min. | Documentary, War | N/A

This documentary reveals how the Chechen war psychologically affected children in Russia and Chechnya. The film is divided into three parts, or "rooms." In the first room - boys of 10-12 years of age at the Military Academy in Kronstadt (near St. Petersburg). In the second room - the ruined Chechen capital Grozny. A city where families are forced to struggle for survival, living in barely suitable homes. The city, with Russian tanks on its streets, is blocked by soldiers, and one brave woman tries to save orphaned children from violence. In the third room are the Islamic Republic of Ingushetia and abandoned orphans living in refugee camps. Among them: a boy found living in a cardboard box, a 19-year-old girl raped by Russian soldiers when she was 12, and a room full of children,

Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo was born in Helsinki in 1947. She entered film school at the age of 17. Her first major directing role, the historical drama film Flame Top (1980), was chosen for the Cannes Official Selection series in 1980. As a documentary maker, she is best known The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic and Satanic. “Scanorama” has screened her films Three Rooms of Melancholia (2004) and Ito – A Diary on an Urban Priest (2009).
Languages
Finnish
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Melancholian 3 huonetta
Produced
2004: Finland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Film information

Director
Pirjo Honkasalo
Screenplay
Pirjo Honkasalo
Music
Sanna Salmenkallio
Cinematography
Pirjo Honkasalo
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