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201466 minPGdocumentary

Guests

201466 minPGdocumentary

Three Tajik brothers live in a makeshift hut 150 km from Moscow, cutting and transporting wood while facing a hard life away from their families.

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Alexey Sukhovey

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Three Tajik brothers live in a makeshift hut 150 km from Moscow, cutting and transporting wood while facing a hard life away from their families.

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Alexey Sukhoveydirector

Alexey Sukhoveywriter

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Ali and Kamil Fedor live in a makeshift hut, 150 km from Moscow, surrounded by a fence. They work daily to cut and transport wood from the nearby forest. Their lives are marked by hard labor, limited Russian language skills, and separation from their families. In their spare time, they engage in card games, drinking, and disputes with locals from the neighboring village. The film portrays their existence as economic exiles, caught between two worlds.

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