Postales de Leningrado/Postcards from Leningrad(2007)

Director : Mariana Rondón
Country : Venezuela
Running Time: 90 mins.

In 1966 a young guerilla woman attempts to give birth without much fanfare. However, when the resulting baby is the first to be born on Mother’s Day, she finds herself in the middle of a PR blitz. And, after that, she and her daughter are on the run. Hidden places, false disguises, and aliases are the daily life of the young girl, the narrator of the story, until the she is left with relatives in her mother’s village. Alongside her cousin-- irresistibly cute Teo-- they re-live the adventures of their guerrilla parents, concocting stories of superheroes and strategies, in which nobody knows where fact or fiction, reality or madness begins. The Invisible Man is their preferred character and vehicle of escape. Everyday is punctuated by the waiting… for their parents… or postcards. Will today be the day they come? Both a comic vignette of village life and a graphic portrayal of dangerous revolutionaries in action, POSTCARDS FROM LENINGRAD, is a highly stylized film of life on the run.

Mariana Rondón

Mariana Rondón studied animation in Paris. She co-directed her first feature film, “At Midnight and a Half,“ with Marite Ugás, the producer of POSTCARDS FROM LENINGRAD.





Rating : 7.2/10
video : http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9io-p8n5w