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THE GREEN SERPENT takes us to a journey into the depths of intoxication: drinking vodka as a transcendental experience. Bitten by the green snake, people enter into a twilight zone where the beauty of life becomes indistinguishable from a dark, devastating void and inspiration and destruction can equally form. During this cinematic anti-postcard trip through the Russian winterland we meet the actor Aleksandr Bashirov, the poet Mstislav Biserov and physicist Nikolai Budnev who speak about their relationship and experience with vodka; the inner struggles and liberations it might awake. This brusque Cinepoem explores the potential of vodka to extend the world beyond religion and materialism. THE GREEN SERPENT is an artistic meditation about drinking, an ode to passion not only for inebriated barflies, but for everyone driven by a sense of wonder and a desire for ecstasy in life.

Benny Jaberg studied at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where he graduated in 2010 with a Master of Arts in film directing. His first feature length and award-winning documentary for cinema «Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense» premiered at the 2010th Berlinale and has been shown at numerous film festivals worldwide. Benny Jaberg works as an independent filmmaker and is currently developing several concepts and scripts for documentary and fiction films.