Bitter Love
On a three-week cruise on the river Volga, passengers are looking for an escape from their lives, looking for change – and love.
Feature documentary
86 min
Premier: CPH:DOX 2020
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
On a three-week cruise on the river Volga, passengers are looking for an escape from their lives, looking for change – and love. Everyone boards the ship carrying a hope. Inside the ship, the intimacy of the encounters takes viewers of the film on their own emotional journey, into the rivers of two universal human feelings: loneliness and undying hope.
CREW
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
Photography: Wojciech Staron
Editing: Jakub Sladkowski
Sound recordist: Shamil Ismailov
Gaffer: Viatseslav Tsekin
Producer: Antonio Russo Merenda
Co-Producers: Ulla Simonen, Ilona Tolmunen, Lucyna Kowalska, Dariusz Kowalski
Original Music: Timo Hietala
Sound design: Janne Laine
