| Sound:
Maarten van Gent
Producer: Pieter van Huystee
Production company: Pieter van Huystee Film
Source:
Matthijs Koenen
PVH Film
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS
Phone: +31 20 4210606
Fax: +31 20 6386255
matthijs@pvhfilm.nl
www.pvhfilm.nl
Not much in Vera Putina's 77-year existence distinguished her from all
those other Russian women who grew up and grew old in the Soviet Union.
Then, in 1999, she recognized in Vladimir Putin the son she thought
was lost forever.
Did the son that Vera thought was lost, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,
really become the President of Russia? Vera no longer asks this question:
for her it is undoubtedly true. She is not alone, for her daughters
and the other inhabitants of the Georgian village of Metechi are also
sure that the ten-year-old who disappeared long ago is the very same
as Russia's leader.
Over the course of this stirring and unusual portrait of Putin's former
world and family, we learn about why young "Vova" left them
behind. With much flair, Vera tells her story, joined by neighbors,
other family members, and Vova's childhood friends. Slowly, we learn
how Vera lost her Vova. Yet despite the tragedy of a mother losing her
child, we also receive a touching and sometimes humorous portrait of
the aging yet still vivacious woman who gave birth to one of the world's
most powerful men.
Ineke Smits was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1960. She studied
at the National Film and Television School in England, and teaches at
Arnhem School of Fine Arts. She has worked extensively in arts programs
connecting the Netherlands and the Republic of Georgia.
Filmography as Director
PUTIN'S MAMA (2003)
MAGONIA (2001)
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