OLGA & OLGA
30 min
b&w
language: Russian, English st
format: 16:9, HD
2017
2017
DIRECTOR Eléonore de
Montesquiou
MUSIC Tatjana
Kozlova-Johannes
WITH Olga Afanasyeva
AND Olga Tüvi
TRANSLATION
Sergei Pogoreltsev
REVIEWING Jenny
Zinovieff
SOUND MIX Jochen Jezussek
MUSIC MASTERING
Tammo Sumera
LOCATION
Ivangorod and the river Narva, Russian-Estonian border
THE FILM IS DEDICATED to Olga Félicie Noëlle
PRODUCED WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Berlin Senat Film Funding and Eesti Kultuurkapital
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Women struggling through life and their political environment. How Olga and Olga manage
their relationship with men? What does feminism mean for them is the
recurrent question
that I have been asking Olga and Olga for almost ten years.
Both
Olgas live on the Estonian-Russian border.
Olga Afanasyeva was born in Tver,
she studied in Moscow before being displaced
to a factory in Ivangorod in the 70s.
Olga Tüvi was born in Narva, now Estonia,
and worked as a metallurgist in a
factory in Ivangorod. She has an Estonian passport
and family but speaks only
Russian. In the nineties, Perestroika times, they both
lost their jobs, since
factories were remodeled or closed down all over the ex-Soviet Union.
Today,
Olga Afanasyeva sells socks and pants in Ivangorod market, Olga Tüvi
is
responsible for the maintenance of lifts in panel housings in Ivangorod.
The
pensions that they receive in Russia allows them to live with one Euro a day,
to make ends meet, they both smuggle things daily across the Estonian border.
The
men have disappeared from their lives.