Section: Focus

Zvezda

Star

Anna Melikjan
Russia, 2014, 128 Min

Masha is young, naive and at the same time single-minded. She wants to be a star, but her legs are bent, her breasts are too small, her lips too thin, and thus she puts all her hopes on plastic surgery.

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In Moscow social and moral differences collide; Masha would love to be an actress, and therefore she spends puts all the money she manages to put aside from her part-time job in a club towards plastic surgery. Her co-worker Kostya agrees to resort to illegal methods in order to help out Masha, even though he's the son of a Moscow oligarch. Drawing upon elements as diverse as fairy tale and melodrama ZVEZDA has something for everybody, and the scene when the two central characters perform Christina Aguilera's Beautiful is guaranteed to tug at the heartstrings of even our most hardened festival visitors. JT

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Anna Melikjan, Andrei Migachyov, Viktoriya Bugaeva
Kamera
Alisher Khamidkhodjaev
Ton
Kirill Vasilenko
Schnitt
Dasha Danilova, Pavel Ruminov
Ausstattung
Ulyana Ryabova
Musik
Alina Orlova, Anna Drubich, Igor Vdovin
Darsteller
Tina Dalakishvili, Severija Janušauskaitė, Pavel Tabakov, Andrey Smolyakov
Produzent
Ruben Dishdishyan, Anna Melikjan
Produktion
Mars Media Entertainment
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Anna Melikjan - born 1976 in Baku, Soviet Union (Azerbaijan). The screenwriter, film director and producer grew up in Armenia. In 2002, she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography. Her student works were awarded at several international festivals. Her second feature film RUSALKA received among others the Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival.

Movies
POLETELI (1999, short, Cottbus 2001)
DO VOSTREBOVANIYA (2001, short)
KONTRABAS (2002, short)
MARS (2004)
RUSALKA (2007)
PRO LYUBOV (2011, short)
PRO LYUBOV 2 (2012, short)