Original title: Sery ta senyory
Copyright: Oleksander Tychynsky and Yulia Serdiukova, Honest Fish Documentary Stories.
Format: documentary short
Carrier: DVD
Color: yes
Length: 35 min.
Original language: Ukrainian Russian, sourzhyk and some English
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Oleksander Techynsky
Cinematographers: Oleksander Techynsky Oleksii Solodunov
Producer: Yuliya Serdiukova
Sound: Oleh Holovoshkyn
Editing: Maryna Maikovska, Ihor, Lytvynov
Color and graphics: Oleksander Ivanenko
Produced by: Honest Fish Documentary Stories.

Synopsis
A museum guide, military man, bank clerk, aircraft mechanic and other desperate Ukrainian men from all over the country get together once a year in autumn to work as porters during the mass pilgrimage of Hasidim to the city of Uman. Every year in September, thousands of Hasidim converge on this small town – to celebrate Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year). They bring enormous amounts of baggage with them. Throughout these four days local porters sleep not more then three hours a night in makeshift tents by the side of the road, and spend the rest of the time carrying tons of loads for the Hasidim. This is well worth their effort for in four days each of them makes the amount that equals their average two-month salary. The festival is also the time of intense, often uneasy, often comic, interaction between two cultures that have existed side by side in Ukraine for many centuries, and that in this case have only four days to reconnect.

Director Olexander Techynsky
Born in 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Spent childhood in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, the Russian Federation. In 1999 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Medical College, then worked as the medical assistant in a psychiatric mergency team. In 2001, he left medicine and started to work as a freelance photographer. Since 2010 has worked for the "Kommersant-Ukraine" daily newspaper. In 2010 has left "Kommersant" and focused on his own documentary projects, including photography and film. "Sirs And Misters" is the first film by Olexander.
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