What keeps mankind alive
Under the toughest of living conditions, four poets have had to employ their imaginations in order to survive. Marjoleine Boonstra choose to focus on the sensory perception during their captivity. Personal stories about physical contact, sound, taste and smell gives intriguing view about the emotional years being in prison. At the age of eighteen, Nizametdin Achmetov went to jail a virgin, and twenty years later he emerged, still a virgin. The Cuban Maria Elena Cruz Varela was all by herself in a prison environment where anybody could betray her, while the Russian Irina Ratoesjinkaja found that her fellow prisoners could be indispensable allies. But during the first days after her release, her eyes could not stand the vivid colours of freedom.
Marjoleine Boonstra
Director, Writer
Nizametdin Achmetov
Self
Maria Elena Cruz Varela
Self
Mircea Dinescu
Self
Irina Ratoesjinskaja
Self
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The Cheshire Murders65%
Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes59%
My Mom Jayne80%
The Class of ‘9271%
Dawg Fight65%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Public Speaking70%
Sherman's March65%
Maternal Instinct71%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Above Majestic73%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
John Candy: I Like Me79%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
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Welcome to Chechnya69%
The Captains63%
