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17 August (17 sierpnia) is a 2009 polish documentary, written and directed by Aleksander Gutman.

Plot
The thing is happening a long way from Moscow, amid the forests of the Russian North, between Vologda and Archangel, on an island lying in one of the lakes, in an Orthodox monastery built in the sixteenth century. In Soviet times this monastery was converted into a harsh regime prison, as were many all over the whole country, because after the acceptance of the death penalty moratorium in 1993 it was there that the first prisoners for life went. Currently there are 142 prisoners there. One of them, Boris Bezoteczestwo, is the hero of the film. Boris has been sentenced to life imprisonment for triple murder. The film tells about one day in the life of a man, who now will never leave his cell. We observe not only routine activities, such as the prisoner performs every day. Primarily we accompany him in ceaseless consideration, of what he succeeded and what he failed to achieve before committing the crime, in his prayers and discussions with God, and also in returning to occurrences, which once seemed to him to be completely ordinary, and today seems to be distant and completely unreal. It is interesting, how the convict creates his imaginations of reality that is already inaccessible to him. The film shows prison life and the external world, which the convict does not see, but its echoes reach him in the form of fragmentary words of the guards, incidental sounds and noises. From these fragments Boris Bezoteczestwo creates for himself an image of the world, from which he came but to which he shall now never return.

Festivals
2011 - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia 

2010 - 21st Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy 

2010 - One World Romania, Bucharest, Romania 

2010 – BAFICI, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

2010 - 7th Film Festival Planete Doc Review, Warsaw, Poland 

2010 - Prix Europa 2010, Berlin, Germany 

2010 - Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai, India 

2010 - Film Festival Doc Point, Helsinki, Finland 

2010 - Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece 

2010 - 10. Documenta Madrid, Spain 

2010 - International Film Festival "Message to Man", Sankt Petersburg, Russia 

2010 - Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Sardinia, Italy 

2010 - Festival “Anûû-rû Aboro", New Caledonia

2010 - Montreal International Documentary Film Festival, Montreal, Canada 

2009 - Two Riversides, Festival of Film and Art, Kazimierz Dolny, Janowiec, Poland 

2009 - 62nd Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland 

2009 - 52nd International Documentary and Animation Film Festival in Lipsk, germany 

Awards
2011 - Golden Plaque on Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia  2010 - Golden Conch - Best Documentary at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai, India  2010 - Special Award at the Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy  2010 – Special mention at the Prix Europa Festival, Berlin, Germany

2010 - Special Prize of Festival Message to Man, Sankt Petersburg, Russia  2010 - Special Mention of Jury at Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Italy  2010 - Special Jury Priize at Festival “Anûû-rû Aboro", New Caledonia

2010 - Prix Image - special mention at Montreal International Documentary Film Festival, Canada  2010 - Special Mention, 52nd International of Documentary and Animation Films in Lipsk, Germany 

Television screenings
The film was screened on YLE TV2 (a Finnish channel) in 2009.