- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 91'
- genre : fiction
- producer : Irina Obidova
- production : LIHO! production / MTS Media
written by Lisa Tsyganova
produced by Alexey Likhnitsky, Igor Mishin, Alexandra Alyokhina
DoP Maria Zherdina
music by Konstantin Poznekov
sound by Alina Bikbulatova
editor Tatiana Lavrova
production designer Alice Solovyova
cast: Pavel Chernyshev, Nikita Plahotniuc, Elizaveta Kononova, Nikita Elenev, Alyona Kuchkova, Yulia Marchenko, Polina Malikova, Sofia Arzhanykh, Anna Brenner-Vartanian, Evgeny Serzin, Mariam Psuturi
Artem is 17. His family life is conplicated - his brothers dispise each other, mother works all the time and spends almost no time with her children. However, he has a best friend - Kostya. They are both outcasts in the college. That's their way of rebelling against the system that only supports leaders, paying no attention to loosers. After an explosion in one of Russian schools, the collage's heads create an unofficial "list of bombers" - the hooligans who need to be under control. The first two places of the list belong to Artem and Kostya. By Complicated accident Artem is number 2, while Kostya is number 1 on the list. As it turns out the 1st position makes you famous among peers. Kostya revels in his popularity and betrays his friend by convincing his classmates that he is the key and only mastermind of all pranks. Now Artem thinks that the only way to be finally heard is to construct a bomb and blow up a silly memorial near the college. Because if he becomes the number one bomber of the college, people will at last notice him.
- Festival of Russian Films "Window to Europe" (2022, Russia, Vyborg)
- Man Who Learns the World National Film Festival (2022, Russia, Crimea)
- International Film Festival of India (2022, India, Goa)
- Kerala International Film Festival (2022, India, Kerala)
- Ariano International Film Festival (2023, Italy, Ariano Irpino)
- Festival of Children's and Family Cinema "Kinopremenka" (2023, Russia, Vladimir)
- ARCTIC OPEN International Film Festival (2023, Russia, Arkhangelsk)
- International Children's Rights Film Festival (2023, Türkiye, Bursa)
- Barcelona Human Rights film Festival (2023, Spain, Barcelona)
- Nika Award, Long list (2024, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
"BOMBER NUMBER TWO" is a story about a smart, empathetic teenager who doesn't feel that anyone loves or needs him. The world around him seems deaf and indifferent. Having convinced himself that the society only hears those who are loud, the protagonist decides to make himself heard using ways of destruction and violence. It's a story about teenagers, their emotions, the way they see the world, their search for their place in the world, for someone to rely on; about friendship and betrayal, about first love and, of course, about growing up. Above all else, it's a story of hope. There's a solution to every problem, and life is the most valuable possession each of us has.
Liza Tsyganova was a participant of the Berlinale Talents Script Station in 2021 with the script for the full feature film, "BOMBER NUMBER TWO".
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Irina Obidova was born on 11.03.1990 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatka), Russia. In 2013 graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television as a film director as a film director.
She shot 2 fiction and 2 documentary short films while studying. After graduation, she worked as an executive and creative producer, and also shot commercials as a director. Since 2015 she has been working as a creative producer of the movie platform Po-tential, a project that supports debutants.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "Bomber Number Two", full-length film \ debut
2020 - "The Comet", short film
2013 - “Will Tomorrow Come?”, documentary \ diploma
2011 - "New World", short film
2010 - "Life at Random", short film
2009 - "March 8", documentary
