Sashenka
6.5
In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, the fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother's pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka as a girl, dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations.
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Dmitry Nizhelsky
Sashenka
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Oksana Burlay-Piterova
Sasha's mom
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Milena Kompaniiets
Lena
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Dmytro Orlov
Kolya
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Victor Rybchinskiy
Sasha's dad
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Oleksandr Zhovna Director · Sergey Kolbinev Cinematographer
First release November 17, 2022 · Produced in Ukraine · Original title Сашенька
Production
Cinemastudio
Production
Ukraine
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Languages
Original title
Сашенька
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
Estonia · November 17, 2022
Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
South Korea
April 30, 2023 · Premiere · Jeonju International Film Festival
Ukraine
August 21, 2023 · Premiere · Odesa International Film Festival
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