The Tribe

Drama, Netherlands/Ukraine 2015

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Sergey is new to the boarding school for the deaf in Kiev, Ukraine. He quickly joins forces with youngsters from an organized gang, "The Tribe," in which violence and harassment rule life with ruthless dynamics. Out of necessity, Sergey also has to assert himself and through theft, robberies and pimping he secures his rank within the hierarchy. When he falls in love with Anna, who like the other girls in the group is being forced into prostitution by the leader, Sergey breaks the tribal code and is suddenly on his own. “The most intense movie of 2015” - The Rolling Stone "Is the film in some way about Ukraine’s own tribal identity, as distinct from Russia’s? One scene – a rare classroom scene, in which the principals are submitting to the school’s notional authority – shows a map in which Ukraine is seen in a western European context. There is a political stratum to The Tribe, just under its overt emotional level, an allegorical comment about the national experience of not hearing and not being heard. It is part of the makeup of one of this year’s strangest and most disturbing films." (Peter Bradshaw, in: The Guardian)
132 min
HD
FSK 16
Audio language:
no dialogue

Awards

Milan Film Festival Best Feature Film Award
European Film Award 2014 Prix FIPRESCI
Cannes 2014 Grand Prix Critics' Week

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Cast:

Hryhoriy Fesenko (Sergei)

Yana Novikova (Anya)

Rosa Babiy (Svetka)

Oleksandr Dsiadevych (Gera)

Ivan Tishko (Makar)

Oleksandr Osadchyi ('King')

Alexandr Sidelnikov ('Shnyr' (Flunky))

Alexander Panivan (Woodwork Teacher)

Kyryl Koshyk (Sponsor)

Original title:

Плем'я

Original language:

no dialogue

Further titles:

Plemya

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 16

Audio language:

no dialogue