Come Back Free
6.9
A poetic documentary about life in a war-torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens' parting words to one another are, "May you come back free!"
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Ksenia Okhapkina Director · Maksim Drozdov Cinematographer Vitaly Afanasiev Cinematographer
Budget $85K · First release November 17, 2016 · Produced in Estonia
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Budget
$85,000
Production
Vesilind
Production
Estonia
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Original title
Приходи свободным
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Chechen · Russian
Release dates
Netherlands · November 17, 2016
Premiere · International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA)
No release date listed for United States.
Georgia
May 13, 2017 · Premiere · CinéDOC-Tbilisi
India
January 16, 2018 · Premiere · Dhaka International Film Festival
Iran
December 12, 2017 · Premiere · Iran International Documentary Film Festival
Italy
November 15, 2017 · Premiere · Religion Today FF
Poland
November 13, 2017 · Premiere · Camerimage
Russia
December 4, 2016 · Premiere · Art Doc Fest
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