Sashenka
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.
Directed by Oleksandr Zhovna · Written by Oleksandr Zhovna
Where to Watch
Rent or Buy
Cast
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Dmitry Nizhelsky Sashenka - Oksana Burlay-Piterova Sasha's mom
- Milena Kompaniiets Lena
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Dmytro Orlov Kolya -
Victor Rybchinskiy Sasha's dad
Make it a double feature
4h 3m together
Sashenka
Il Divo
A close match in mood and era.
