- year : 2021
- country : Russia
- timing : 21:44'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Oleg Savenkov
written by Oleg Savenkov
produced by Oleg Savenkov, Maxim Dianov
DoP Maxim Dianov
music by Dmitry Shostakovich
sound by Pavel Trautwein, Alexander Nadezhdin, Victoria Apalko
editor Ijulia Kasimova
production designer Zlata Panafidina
cast: Vlad Volkov, Vyacheslav Kolyadin, Sergey Maslennikov, Pavel Galkin, Pavel Kostrikin, Timothy Seaton, Vladimir Lityshev, Anastasia Averina, Evgenia Marshinova, Anna Pisareva, Laima Irbis, Elena Zhitkevich, Daria Yermoshina, Artem Stroganov
The Nineties. A young guy, an aspiring "Ostap Bender," dares to run a card scam in a casino and go up against the foreign managers and masters of life, the gangsters, but an encounter with a former marginalist conductor fundamentally changes the course of the story, taking the conflict to a deeper level.
- Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna" (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2021, India, Pune)
- International festival of author's cinema MosFilmFest (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
In my opinion, our time and the early '90s overlap in many ways. The contrast between the dominance of brutality, the power of brute force, money, and a vanishing spirituality, is especially striking and overt in the 90s. In the film the con theme flows smoothly into the spiritual when the main character, a former conductor, appears, in complete contrast to everything that is going on. He tells his parable about four wives, the meaning of which the bandits don't understand, but something deep inside them touches and worries them because it speaks of the primacy of the material over the forgotten soul. That's what I wanted to show in the film.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Oleg Savenkov was born on 01.10.1972 in Smela, Ukraine. In 2001 graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University. In 2018 graduated from High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - "Conductor", short student film \ diploma \ debut
