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The film does not have dialogue. The main character, Dina, lives with her father Tolgat on a serene farm that is near a nuclear test site. Dina is gentle, has a strong attachment to nature, and loves art.  She loves to scrapbook and collage with the leaves and sticks.  In one of her scrapbooks she creates a plane flying away representing her dream to one day travel and escape the isolation she feels in the remote farmland.  “Unspecified in the movie itself, the geographical setting can be deduced as somewhere near Semey in modern-day Kazakhstan, then known as Semipalatinsk \u2014 notorious as the site of the USSR\u2019s first nuclear test, in August 1949.”[1]Table of ContentsBackground[edit]Plot, Characters, and Themes[edit]Reception[edit]Accolades[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Background[edit]During the time period of 1949 and 1989, Semipalatinsk was used as a testing site for the Soviet Union conducting 456 nuclear tests. One of the first weapons tests took place at this testing site in 1949. A Limited Test Treaty Ban[2] was put into effect in 1963 allowing the use of underground bombing despite the ban on nuclear testing in the atmosphere or in an environment that will possibly lead to radiation. On the bright side, Semipalatinsk testing site was one of the peaceful nuclear testing sites.[3]Plot, Characters, and Themes[edit]Dina, a poor farm girl, lives with her father on a remote farm in the middle of present day Kazakhstan but was a part of the Soviet Union when the movie took place in 1949.  Tolgat, Dina’s father is a farmer and used to fly planes.  While never stated, it is assumed Tolgat fought in World War II.  Both Dina and Tolgat show little emotion throughout the film. They have experienced trauma and the isolation is brutal.  Tolgat often comes home with such intense sun burns that he is unable to walk.Dina also has two love interests. Kaisyn is a local who comes from a similar background to Dina. His relationship with her shows more of a passionate and intense intimacy, while her second love interest with Max represents a more goofy and lighthearted love. Max is blue eyed and Caucasian. He is clearly not from the same area of the Soviet Union and ultimately ends up with Dina in the ends of the movie when a nuclear bomb explodes wiping out Dina’s home and everything with it.There are many themes that are used in this film in order to implicitly show Dina’s emotions. One of these themes is nature and her strong attachment to it. Dina is one with nature as a result of her extreme isolation. The vast farm land of nothingness adds to the feeling of isolation. There is a lack of infrastructure and people, preventing any real interaction with the world besides the characters present in the film. This minimal interaction presented creates more of an urge for Dina’s dreams of leaving. She uses it in her artwork to represent her future ambitions of escaping the area she lives in. Her artwork also is an indication of the creativity she develops because she uses the elements of nature in her work to present to viewers her feelings of wanting more without directly speaking on her emotions. Another theme is “actions speak louder than words”, as cliche as it sounds. The element of no dialogue drastically adds to the feeling of isolation because viewers are solely left to observe the scenery, objects, and the action of characters. There are many opportunities for viewers to ponder and contemplate on the characters’ actions and emotions since there are no conversations. With the absence of dialogue, there is additional work done with the framing distance, lighting, color, camera angles, and editing to assure that viewers think critically about how its mise en sc\u00e8ne contributes to telling the story of the film without words adding to the story. Overall, no dialogue adds to the element of loneliness and detachment that may reflect the emptiness of this time period. Another theme is her ambition to travel. There is a large World map in her room that she often gazes at. Dina additionally includes Indian dancing rituals and exotic fish in the collages she makes. Tolgat is also a pilot, so it seems as though travel should be more accessible, which makes her longing to escape more drastic.Elena An as DinaDanila Rassomakhin as MaxKarim Pakachakov as TolgatNarinman Bekbulatov-Areshev as KaysinReception[edit]Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter stated “Elevated by a luminous performance from newcomer Elena An and Levan Kapanadze’s crisply poetic cinematography” along with No\u00e9mie Luciani’s response that “Pictures and sounds are worth (nearly) a thousand words.”[4][5]Accolades[edit]The film has won the following awards:Narrative Competition, Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014Grand Prize of the Festival, Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2014Best Artistic Contribution Award, Tokyo International Film Festival 2014Best International Feature, Golden Orange Film Festival 2014 (Turkey).[6][7]AwardsYearCategoryResultsAbu Dhabi Film Festival[8]2014Special Jury AwardWonBest Narrative FeatureNomineeAsia Pacific Screen Awards [9]2014Achievement in CinematographyNomineeNika Awards[10]2015Best MusicWonBest FilmNomineeBest CinematographerBest SoundRussian Guild of Cinematographers, Russia[11]2015Best Cinematography in a Feature FilmWonRussian Guild of Film Critics[12]2015Best ComposerWonBest DirectorNomineeBest CinematographerNomineeSakhalin International Film Festival [13]2014Grand PrixNomineeSochi Open Russian Film Festival[14]2014Best CinematographerWonGrand Prize of the FestivalWonPrize of the Guild of RussianFilm Scholars and Film CriticsWonTokyo International Film Festival[15]2014Best Artistic ContributionWonWOWOW Viewer’s Choice AwardWonTokyo Grand PrixNomineeTransylvania International Film Festival [16]2015FIPRESCI PrizeWonReferences[edit]External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/test-2014-film-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Test (2014 film) – Wikipedia"}}]}]