- year : 2016
- country : Russia
- timing : 59:45'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Maxim Kobzev
written and produced by Maxim Kobzev
sound by Maxim Kobzev
DoP Maxim Kobzev
production company: GITR Film & Television School
After a divorce Oleg decided to commit suicide and for this purpose he went off to war as a volunteer. His life became simple and clear. But the war placed the accents. Oleg hit a land mine, got to hospital and came back home. But at home Oleg disappointedly understands that nobody considers him as a hero, and on the contrary, he became a stranger for everyone and the only way - to return back to the combat zone.
- North Caucasus Open Film Festival and TV "Kunaki" (2016, Abkhazia, Sukhumi)
- Documentary Film Festival "ArtDocFest" (2014, Moscow, Russia)
- Human Rights International Film Festival "Stalker", The Grand Prix "Stalker" (2016, Moscow, Russia)
- International Film Festival DetectiveFEST, Special Jury Prize in the category "War and Peace" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona (2017, Spain, Barcelona)
- Film Festival "Native Trails" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Open All-Russian Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the earth" (2017, Russia, Samara)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, Special Jury Prize (2017, USA, New York)
- International Festival “A Film for Peace” (2018, Italy, Medea)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Maxim Kobzev was born on 17.01.1990 in Voronezh, Russia. In 2008 he moved to Moscow. In 2016 graduated from The Russian Humanitarian Institute of TV and Radio Broadcasting n.a. M. Litovchin (GITR) as a film director. At the present moment works as a director at Musicbox TV channel.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2016 - I WAS BITTEN BY A SHARK, documentary
