Kotelnitch is a small village 800 kilometers east of Moscow. The filmmaker initially went there in search of a Hungarian WW II prisoner who spent 55 years, forgotten by everyone, in a psychiatric hospital. He returns to the village to make a documentary. His second and last visit is to bury a young woman he’d met there and who was killed by a madman. He realizes that these three film shoots, spread over two years, were telling a story – the story of his family.
By celebrated French novelist and scriptwriter Emmanuel Carrère.
Emmanuel Carrère (born in Paris on 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d’Encausse after his wife’s pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse.
Carrère studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.
He was scheduled to be part of the jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May. He has been announced as a member of the jury for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia
If anyone can tell me where I can see this film I will be there best friend forever, I might even be willing to perform sexual favours : )