• “Olga” evokes the life of a Ukrainian sportswoman who took refuge in Switzerland.

  • She follows a very hard training while her journalist mother covers the violent events which shake their country.

  • This beautiful portrait of a teenage girl owes a lot to Nastya Budiashkina, a real gymnast, who embodies her.

She has everything a great!

Nastya Budiashkina is the revelation of

Olga

by Elie Grappe.

Revealed at the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival, this beautiful film evokes the hardships of a 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast who took refuge in Switzerland during the violent Euromaidan protests in 2013.

It is not easy for the teenager to stay focused on the competitions when she knows that her mother, a journalist back home, is at the center of the clashes.

"What interested me in these young sportswomen is the gap between their ideal of perfection and what they are outside of their practice: adolescent girls steeped in emotions", declares the filmmaker in the dossier of hurry.

The key to emotion

Nastya Budiashkina, an unprofessional actress but a true gymnast, is naturally gifted both for breathtaking scenes and for the dialogue sequences where Elie Grappe allowed her to find her own words to communicate the discomfort felt by her character. Between documentary and fiction,

Olga

makes the viewer discover the daily life of a young girl not quite like the others.

"Nastya is the key to the emotion of the film," says the filmmaker who chose her from the reserve of the Ukrainian national team.

His testimony, like that of other gymnasts, helped Elie Grappe to enrich his fictional characters.

Olga

is a beautiful female portrait highlighting the fragility, courage and resilience of a heroine that we often want to hug.

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