“The body was… unrecognisable. I didn’t see the head, I didn’t see the arm, I didn’t see legs… I only saw the body wrapped in dirt.” Based upon a fait-divers that stunned the country: four Rottweiler dogs at large mauled a woman to death.

After years in Israel the filmmaker returns to Nabbin in the Czech Republic, the place where she grew up, and to the people who surrounded her then. Sajat’ / Diane Lentin / France / 2018 / 0:39:00 Russia today. In its complexity, its enigma. Diane Lentin does not claim to shed light on things. This is evidenced by the voices she uses, as old as the famous the Journal of Astolphe de Custine in 1839. Because above all what she is looking for, as though groping her way around, is to see and to hear. Therefore here is a splintered film, with slow fragments drifting like lumps of snow, on which are slowly engraved the marks of lives, subjected to politics, but also to a faceless melancholy. "One must travel one's own self to know how much the reputations made to the various peoples by travelers, often light in their judgments by laziness of mind, affect the characters." Every individual in particular strives to protest against the general opinion. established with respect to the people of his country. " This quote closes the journal of the Marquis de Custine, "Letters of Russia" published in 1839. Custine is the enigmatic character that accompanies Sokurov in "The Russian Ark", which appears and disappears throughout this wandering in the Hermitage Palace in St. Petersburg, and in the History of Russia. This film is a diary of a young Westerner who travels this great country and its great history trying to understand what some people are living and what some people think. It is a look at Russia one hundred years after the Revolution and the children who will grow there. But it's just a look.

Russia today. In its complexity, its enigma. Diane Lentin does not claim to shed light on things. This is evidenced by the voices she uses, as old as the famous the Journal of Astolphe de Custine in 1839. Because above all what she is looking for, as though groping her way around, is to see and to hear. Therefore here is a splintered film, with slow fragments drifting like lumps of snow, on which are slowly engraved the marks of lives, subjected to politics, but also to a faceless melancholy. "One must travel one's own self to know how much the reputations made to the various peoples by travelers, often light in their judgments by laziness of mind, affect the characters." Every individual in particular strives to protest against the general opinion. established with respect to the people of his country. " This quote closes the journal of the Marquis de Custine, "Letters of Russia" published in 1839. Custine is the enigmatic character that accompanies Sokurov in "The Russian Ark", which appears and disappears throughout this wandering in the Hermitage Palace in St. Petersburg, and in the History of Russia. This film is a diary of a young Westerner who travels this great country and its great history trying to understand what some people are living and what some people think. It is a look at Russia one hundred years after the Revolution and the children who will grow there. But it's just a look.