Love is Potatoes

Love is Potatoes
dir.Aliona van der Horst/Netherlands/2017/90 min
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One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play.

She began a journey into the past, back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin’s Russia; experiences that left them scarred to their very soul.

Aliona’s quest into the lives and fate of her family becomes a loving, poignant, and poetic film with Chekhovian characters. Accompanied by the magical animation of acclaimed Italian artist Simone Massi, unimaginable events in the Soviet past are given an immediate charge. Along with the stories of ordinary people living in the small farmhouse, the film maker tells the tale of Soviet terror, immense bravery and a fear that has never left those four walls.

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  • projection time:
    90 min
  • country/year:
    Netherlands/2017
  • director:
  • pictures:
    Aliona van der Horst, Maasja Ooms
  • production:
    Zeppers Films
  • selected festivals and awards:
    2017 – IDFA Amsterdam, 2017 – DOK Leipzig

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