Victoria by Kasia Rostockaja
DESCRIPTION OF A FILM:
There are such people – they treat animals better than people ©
Victoria is 35. She is beautiful and modern. And she… works at the collective farm. Precisely, she runs a collective horse farm. Her salary is not enough for anything, so she earns some extra money also in the circus - shoeing horses and ponies there. Such a life – is a conscious choice of Victoria. Cause she is the owner of seven horses. Together with the collective herd all of them live on the farm.
Victoria is constantly studying, taking lessons from the masters of Horseback Riding sports of international class. Later on, she teaches her wards the complex elements of dressage. Her whole life is spent on the farm. Victoria holds in an iron fist the grooms and workers from the local villagers. Thanks to her, it is always perfectly clean here. Nevertheless, the grooms often go into long drinking bouts after the paycheck. And then the fragile Victoria distributes haylage and cleans up after the horses by herself. And there are 25 of horses here.
Victoria is harsh and intolerant with people (grooms are afraid of her like fire) - with animals, she is infinitely attentive and sensitive. And Victoria always "must be on horseback." All her photos and videos are “ceremonial”. She must always look strong, no one can see her weakness. Even when her father died, Victoria, as usual, came to the farm to work.
But what is hidden behind the image of a person who always wins?
Kasia Rastockaja
born on July 17 in Belarus.
EDUCATION:
› In 2004 she graduated Journalism from Belarusian State University (speciality – literary editing).
WORK EXPERIENCE:
› Senior editor in a producing company “Media professional union”, which is engaged in the production of television films (mainly TV series).
› Journalist on “Capital TV” (Minsk).
› Freelance writer in the magazine “Around the World in Belarus” and “Planet” – articles mainly on historical themes.
› Radio station “Radio-Minsk” (correspondent, presenter of ethers).
FILMOGRAPHY:
› “Yelnya” (2019)
› “Yellow flowers” (2019),
› “The Boy from Pagost” (2018),
› “The Church on a Cross” (2018) – first place among historical documentaries at the XXXI International Catholic Film and Media Festival “KSF Niepokalana 2019” in Warsaw,
› “Translator” (2018) – diploma “For the relevance of the topic” at the festival “Pokrov” in Kiev,
› “The Man from the Gulag” (2017),
› “100 years for work” (2017), › “1812. The war which was other” (2016)