Sashenka(2022)

Sashenka Synopsis

In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, the fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother's pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka as a girl, dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations.

Sashenka (2022) is a drama, thriller and crime film directed by Oleksandr Zhovna, released on November 17, 2022 with a runtime of 2h 10m. It stars Dmitry Nizhelsky, Oksana Burlay-Piterova, Milena Kompaniiets and Dmytro Orlov. Viewers rate it 1.0 out of 10 across 2 ratings.