Section: Russkiy Den

Yazichniky

Pagans

Lera Surkova

Russia, 2017, 93 Min

Religion as the cure of all evils? Oleg and Marina share a small apartment in Moscow. He's a musician in desperate need of work, whilst she attempts to earn money as a flat broker. The couple's daughter Kristina studies at university. One day Oleg's religious mother turns up out of the blue and proceeds to turn the family existence upside down.

Kott Production

Natialia Stepanovna arrives and brings her religious views with her. Gradually able to convince those around her, she soon has the family under her influence, with only Kristina offering determined resistance. With a Moscow-based family serving as a microcosm, we are immerged in the current debate over the role of faith and religion in the modern world, as the viewer is exposed to the workings of a gradually evolving parallel existence and the ways in which these can flow over into extremism and fanaticism. A highly controversial subject in post-communist Russia, where the Orthodox Church numbers as one of the pillars of the state.

In her debut production director Lera Surkova has created a cleverly staged, multi-layered narrative with an unexpected ending. MM

Filmformat
Mp4 | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Anna Yablonskaya

Kamera
Syuzanna Musaeva, Maxim Trapo

Ton
Evgeniy Slivchenko

Schnitt
Dmitry Naumov

Ausstattung
Denis Sazonov

Darsteller
Elena Nesterova, Valentin Samokhin, Vitalya Yenshina, Tatyana Vladimirova, Dmitriy Urosov, Artem Grigoriev, Anna Kotova

Produzent
Vladimir Kott, Alexander Kott

Produktion
Kott Production

Co-Produktion
Maxim Trapo, Vladimir Matvejev, Susanna Musaeva

Kontakt
Kott Production
Vladimir Kott
Preobrazhenskaya Street 5/7
107076 Moscow
Russia
+7.91.61.33.08 87
cinepromo@yandex.ru

Lera Surkova - born in 1977. She graduated from Moscow Art Theatre School, participated in the Marina Razbezhkina’s Workshop of documentary films and enrolled in Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors at the VKSR in Moscow. Worked as an actress and as a director. YAZICHNIKY is her feature debut.

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