Sound Recordist: ‘Proschay’
Proschay (Buncelmanns, 2020) - BENITA VON SASS - SOUND RECORDIST, LATVIA
Sound Recordist - 2019 Riga, Latvia
Benita completed role as Sound Recordist for short film PROSCHAY - WW11 Latvian/Russian love story directed by Joanns Buncelmanns. Shot on location in Riga, Latvia.
The story is about a happy, young married couple who are separated by war. In 1941, a young Dimitriy (Edgar Bechter) is called to war in Latvia where he becomes injured on the battlefield. When he is taken for dead, his young wife (Ekaterina Shumakova) eventually finds love again, re-marrying and starting the family she and her first husband Dimitriy had only dreamed about.
Seven years after the war ends, Dimitry re-emerges, seeking and finding his wife whom he discovers has moved on. The story is based on a true and familiar story of the tragedies of war and the final goodbye - Proschay - that many soldiers and their families were forced to make.
EXT. LATVIA BUNKER & BATTLEFIELD - DAY location using radio mic (seen here with Boom Op); INT. LATVIA APARTMENT - NIGHT using hidden mic on table / INT LATVIA APARTMENT - NIGHT monitoring
EXT LATVIA BATTLEFIELD - DAY capturing gunshots, ambient sound and breathing etc. using combo of boom mic and radio mic. Seen here with cast/crew and Boom Op. Crew Group Shot
INT. LATVIA APARTMENT - DAY With director Joanns Buncelmanns, Actor Edgar Bechter, Actor Ekatarina Shumakova
On EXT location in Riga Army Barrack and range for battlefield shots.
EXT TRAIN STATION - DAY The original goodbye between the soldier and his wife at the train station as he leaves for war.
