Eugene and "dove" continue their harvest
Winner of the Swiss Cinema Award for Best Film of 2006, and with 543,000 admissions in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, My Name Is Eugene [+see also:
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For its part, Coca – The Chechen Dove (Doc Production, Zurich) by Eric Bergkraut won the Rudolf Vrba Award at the 8th World International Human Rights Film Festival, which ran in Prague from March 4-12. Screened at approximately twenty international film festivals since its première at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005, this portrait of the Chechen militant Sainap "Coca" Gachayeva was hailed by the press upon its recent release in France.
(Translated from French)
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