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2003 | Color | 88 min

Vodka Lemon In a Kurdish village in the Caucasus surrounded only by snow, sixtysomething year-old Hamo lives with the consequences of being a retired member of the Red Army. A widower, the only thing he has left is a television set, his old army uniform, and a seven dollar pension. Every day, Hamo goes to the cemetery to talk to his wife. A little further down, Nina, a beautiful fifty year-old widow, brushes the snow off her husband?s grave. They soon realize that a common ritual unites them, and that in the midst of such a cold, hostile climate, a warm relationship can grow between them


Country: Italia, Suiza, Francia, Alemania
Direction: Saleem; Hiner
Script: Salee; Hiner
Production: Salee; Hiner
Photography: Pollock; Christophe
Sound: Ullman; Frédéric
Music: Dadoyan; Roustam, Korb; Michel
Cast:Avinian; Romen, Sarkissian; Lala, Franek; Ivan
Participation year at FICM: 2004

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