Directed by Konstantin Fam Music by Egor Romanenko Initial release 2012 Film series Witnesses (film series) Music director Egor Romanenko | Written by Konstantin Fam Running time 20 minutes Director Konstantin Fam Screenplay Konstantin Fam | |
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Produced by Konstantin Fam
Uriy Igrushа
Miсhail Bykov
Alex A. Petruhin
Tanya Dovidovskaya
Krzysztof Wiech
Tania Rakhmanova
Alexey Timofeev
Aleksandr Kulikov
Igor Lopatenok Cinematography Asen Shopov
Sergey Novikov
Otabek Djuraev
Marec Gajczak Cast Uliana Elina, Tatiana Spyrgyash, Alexander Bokovets, Ilya Uglava Similar Brutus, Red Shoe Diaries: The Movi, Die zertanzten Schuhe, The Battle of Kerzhenets, Golden Shoes | ||
Baby shoes 2012 short film
Shoes is a 2012 international short film directed, written and produced by Konstantin Fam. The film is the result of a joint effort by professional team from Russia, the USA, the Czech Republic, Poland, France, Belarus and Ukraine. The film is the first installment of The trilogy "Witnesses" dedicated to the memory of victims of the Holocaust. It was the only nominee from Russia for the Academy Awards in the short film category in 2013.
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Plot
The first installment traces the personal history of a Jewish girl in 1930s-1940s from the point of view of a pair of red shoes. Starting from the shop window where the shoes were purchased and ending at a mountain of discarded shoes of the victims in a mass grave of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Film crew
Art features
The main object in a shot is a pair of the shoes. There are no dialogues in a shot and we see no human faces but only their shoes. The film is accompanied by an original soundtrack inspired by Jewish folk motives.
Cultural effect
In 2013 the Deputy Director of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Efim Rezvan on behalf of the Museum presented the film an honorary diploma from "for bright creative contribution to the museum's exhibition program and the preservation of memory". Together with the Department of Human Rights and the Department of Education Nuremberg plans to create an educational program for school children in Germany.