My Dear Mother

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My Dear Mother (2019)

Directed by Paul-Anders Simma

“She was nine years old when she discovered that she was not an orphan”

Documentary · 1h 23m

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she lived with her grandparents, who were Russian Sami. Dasha's father is in jail and her mother was a drug addict. Dasha would like to have contact with her roots and she wants to keep her Sami identity.

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Cast

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Dasha Matrekhina Herself
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Alyonna Sovkina Herself
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Irina Matveeva Herself
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Natescha Panova Herself
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Larissa Yulina Herself
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Igor Posatckii Himself
A
Aleksander Agafonov Himself Natalya Agafonova Herself

Crew

Director
Paul-Anders Simma
Writer
Paul-Anders Simma
Director of Photography
Arvo Vilu, Elen Lotman
Original Music Composer
Matti Bye
Editor
Jari Innanen
Producer
Paul-Anders Simma, Margus Õunapuu

Details

Original title
Ráhkkis Eadni
Release date
2019-12-01
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
SE
Spoken languages
Russian
Countries
Finland, Norway, Sweden
Production
Saamifilmi Oy