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SASJA AND NATASHA 2008
  A documentary by Leen van den Berg
 
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Synopsis

Sasja and Natasha were born in Kiev, in de Ukraine, and have known each other since childhood. They are very close friends but also very different. Sasja is enterprising and ambitious. She left for the Netherlands, where she now has a good job. Back home, Natasha teaches music from her home and is happy with her husband and dog.

When Natasha gets pregnant, Sasja visits her friend and she is confronted with what she left. Has the Orange Revolution changed the Ukraine for better? Did she do the right thing leaving? Does she miss her parents just as much as they missed her? Will sunshine on the autumn leaves in the Hague ever compare with Kiev?

In animated scenes, the film tells a story of making choices and being uprooted
 
 
Credits Scenario & Directing Leen van den Berg
  Camera Bert Oosterveld
  Sound Hein Verhoeven
  Montage Jan Ketelaars
  Film advice Barbara den Uyl
  Music Volodymyr Kurylenko en Olexandr Bondarenko
  Interpreter Nataliya Karpenko
  Russian translation Mark Coenen, Katja Khatmatzhytaryuk, Alexandra Mirskikh
  English translation and subtitling Martin Cleaver
  Dutch subtitling Peter Groot
  Sound editing Jac Vleeshouwers
  Grading Jef Grosfeld
  Production Alexandra Mirskikh en Leen van den Berg
  Producer Leen van den Berg
   
   
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