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Vodka Lemon
Special Programs in Focus
Love/Romance · Food/Beverage · Comedy
- CountryFrance,Italy,Switzerland,Armenia
- Production Year2003
- Running Time84min
- Format35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
A love story blooms in a graveyard. Living on a pension, a widower Hamo visits his wife’s grave every day. Nina who lives on selling vodka at the small street shop visits her husband’s grave every day. There two meet and their romance begins. Just like ‘vodka lemon’ with a strange taste of almond, it is a story about the Kurds living in a strange land. Enduring the suffocating economic pressure of everyday life, they are still looking for the warmth of another human being with a unique sense of humor. In the midst of Armenian snowy landscape, there blooms the unexpected humanism. (CHO Young-jung)
Director
Hiner SALEEM
Saleem was born in a Kurdish community in Iraq and currently lives in Paris. Saleem, a director and writer, studied politics in Italy after leaving Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s regime. His novel, [My Father’s Gun](2004), was translated into many different languages. He produced [Vodka Lemon](2003), [Kilometer Zero](2005) and [Dol](2007). Among them, the last two were presented at the Pusan International Film Festival.
Credit
- Director
Hiner SALEEM - CastRomen AVINIAN
Lala SARKISSIAN
Ivan FRANEK
Ruzan MESROPYAN - ScreenplayLei DINETY
Pauline GOUZENNE
Hiner SALEEM - CinematographyChristophe POLLOCK
- Production DesignKamal HAMARASH
- EditorDora MANTZOROS
- SoundMichel FILLPPI
Christian FONTAINE
Yves-Marie OMNES
Frédéric ULLMANN - MusicAlexandre GASPAROV
Roland ROMANELLI
Jean-Pierre SMADJA
Zorica STANOJEVIC - Production CompanyDulcine Films
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