Film Library
Such Beautiful People, 2013.  

Original title: Taki krasyvi liudy.
Copyright: Ukrainian State Film Agency, 2013.
Format: feature narrative, drama.
Carrier: DVD
Color: yes
Length: 94 min.
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Dmytro Moiseyev
Script writer: Dmytro Moiseyev
Director of photography: Serhii Tartyshnikov
Production designer: Oleksii Balashov
Composer: Maksym Shalyhin
Sound director: Anatolii Ivaniuk
Editor: Oleksander Novytsky
Producer: Ihor Stavchansky
Artistic supervisor: Roman Balayan   

Film cast:
Polina Voinevych, Kostiantyn Danyliuk, Alla Bineyeva, Oleh Stefan, V'yacheslav Hlushko, Mykhailo Savchenko, Mykhailo Zhonin, Oleksander Yarema, Vasyl Stiopkin, Mykailo Ihnatov, Olena Kaplan, Zhanna Bohdevych, Oleksander Morhatsky, Dmytro Myseyev, et al.

Synopsis
Marta, a lonely woman in her mid-thirties, makes her living by fishing in the sea and selling her catch. She is in desperate need of finding a man in her life for she simply needs to love. One day, when she has all but given up on her dream, an equally lonely man walks into her life, triggering off an avalanche of feelings in Marta. Their attraction is mutual, but the man has a secret and a history he needs to sort out before he can commit to a relationship.

The directorial debut of Dmytro Moiseyev in the feature narrative genre is beautifully photographed if a bit slow in its plotline development. The dialogue is at times stilted and the acting uneven. Yet the director abundantly shows an unmistakable promise. The film is wonderfully refreshing thanks to the mere fact that its protagonists speak a modern literary Ukrainian free from contamination with Russian. That alone gives the film a cultural dimension that has become a rarity in post-Soviet Ukrainian movies.

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