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Cenzorka (2021)

Drama | 93 minutes
3,46 14 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 93 minuten

Alternative titles: 107 Mothers / Censor / Цензорка

Country: Slovakia / Czech Republic / Ukraine

Directed by: Péter Kerekes

Stars: Maryna Klimova, Iryna Kiryazeva and Lyubov Vasylyna

IMDb score: 6,9 (528)

Releasedate: 14 October 2021

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Cenzorka plot

Lesia has committed a crime of passion that earns her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa's women's prisons. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she enters a world populated only by women. Prisoners, nurses and guards, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women and women with children. Without the color of the uniform it would sometimes be difficult to tell who is who.

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The children of women who give birth while serving a sentence in an Odessa prison grow up in a separate ward where their mothers are allowed to visit them regularly. When the child turns 3 years old, the mother can apply for parole so that she can continue to care for her child. If that request is not granted, the mother must arrange an alternative, otherwise the child will go to the orphanage. In this grim drama, we follow two women from childbirth to the moment when they are faced with this dilemma. Kerekes' straightforward directing gives this a documentary feel and keeps the viewer at a distance from the women in question, about whom we hardly get to know anything. The combination of the almost emotionless play and the attention to the routine of prison life make this quite a boring affair, even if Kereks based his screenplay on witness statements.

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The film has a strong documentary-like feel, but at the same time you hardly get any information about the context of this women's prison: it takes a while before it is clear that it takes place in Ukraine while the year remains mysterious because it feels strongly like an undeveloped, communist country of at most just after WWII, but later remarkably modern things such as mobile telephones also surfaced. The story also has little to offer: we mainly follow inmate Lesya, who has a child in prison, and the empathetic prison warden Iryna, who is childless because not (yet) happy in love, so you soon feel where it goes if there is a threat that Lesya's child will have to go to the orphanage if Lesya is not released on parole. What remains is that the social realism with which we get a glimpse into such a prison is penetrating, whereby the film has also been consciously shot aesthetically, so that it is visually a good film.

PS. What is striking is that all women in prison have committed their crime because of 'love'. That in fact makes them all 'victims' and Ladies Macbeth from the Mtsensk District about which Leskov story from 1865 I happened to write a piece today on brother site Boekmeter: Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo Uyezda - Nikolai Leskov (1865) - BoekMeter.nl.

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Fisico

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A film indeed in a kind of documentary-like style where the viewer looks at life as it is in a women's prison in a fairly observant way. Sometimes it looks more like a nursery than a prison, but just about all women in prison have been convicted of murder, mostly out of passion. You should not expect such prisons to be very luxurious, but despite the limited resources there is a serene and humane policy.

The children grow up in prison and after three years the mother in question can obtain a request for conditional release. Despite the interesting story and theme, the film drags on slightly. Many events are repetitive.

The film immediately hits home with an explicit delivery. Technically further taken care of without many frills. All very solid.

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