Section: Spectrum

KREMEN

HARD-HEARTED

Aleksej Misgirew
Russia, 2007, 90 Min
Intercinema XXI Century

Anton Remitsov has just been discharged from the army and reckons he’s a tough guy. In search of a better life, he leaves his provincial town for Moscow, where he also wants to visit an unknown girl who sent him a photo when he was doing his military service. He’s hardly stepped off the train in Moscow before his first brush with the law occurs. But instead of arresting him they offer him a job with the militia. And he soon tracks down his distant admirer – a schoolgirl, who promptly gives him the brush-off. Staring back at him now is the ruthless day-to-day life of Moscow, dominated by corrupt civil servants, organized crime and mindless violence. But Anton has no intention of giving up. On the contrary: as a “revenging angel” he cuts his own path through the big-city jungle called Moscow.

This award-winning debut is an unsparing reckoning with the deplorable state of contemporary Russian society. It works as a finely written thriller but also, thanks to the director’s observational skills, as a hard, authentic portrait of the ambitious and determined capital city.

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Aleksej Misgirew, Juri Klawdiew
Kamera
Wagim Deew
Ton
Ewgenija Matrosowa
Schnitt
Natalija Kutscherenko
Ausstattung
Denis Schibanow
Darsteller
Ewgeni Antropow, Dimitri Kulitschkow, Sergej Schechowzow, Anastasija Besborodova, Tatjana Nastaschewskaja, Aleksandr Golubew, Karen Badalow
Produzent
Sergej Seljanow
Produktion
CTB
Kontakt
Intercinema XXI Century
15 Druzhinnikovskaya St.
123 242 Moskva
Russia
Tel: +7.095.255 90 52
Fax: +7.095.255 90 82
post@intercin.ru
www.intercinema.ru
Aleksej Misgirew

Aleksej Misgirew - born 1974 in Myski. After studying philosophy in Tomsk, he enrolled in directing at the Moscow VGIK film school, and shot several shorts while completing his course. He worked on a television series for the Russian Channel in 2006. HARD-HEARTED is his feature debut.

Movies
PLOCHAJA KWARTIRA (2000, short)
PROJESDOM (2000, short)
NINA (2001, short)
UWOLNEUIJE (2004, short)
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