Original title: Podorozh

Copyright: Ostpol and the Robert Bosch Foundation, 2008.

Format: feature short

Carrier: DVD

Color: color

Length: 16 min.

Original language: Ukrainian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew 

Directed by  Roman Synchuk

Screenplay by  Jasmin Gerold

Produced by  Andriy Savchenko and Kati Rohnke

Photographed by  Serhiy Krutko

Sound producer and composer  Vitaliy Ivaniuk

Production Designer Tetiana Kovtun

Assistant Director  Serhiy Illiashenko

Assistant Operator  Stanislav Kotelenets

Editor  Viktor Fedyk

voice editing  Anna Prostakova and Ruslana Saminina

Film cast

Lina Budnyk as grandmother

Vika Kutsenko as the little girl

Olena Neshcheret  as mother

Synopsis 

This is a story of a relationship between an old woman suffering from Alzheimer disease, her adult daughter and her six-year old granddaughter. The implacable disease drags the old woman into the world of shredded memories of things past, wild fantasies, and weird visions. The old woman becomes increasingly at odds with the real world around her, its rigid rules and senseless conventions. Sound judgment slowly abandons her and the tension with her daughter grows. The little girl remains the only living creature who understands and supports her grandmother. What seems insanity to the daughter makes all the sense in the world to the little girl. Roman Synchuk’s poignant inquiry into the nature of aging makes the viewer pause and reflect on issues of human existence that sooner or later arise for each and everyone of us.