PLAY FOR EVERYONE

year : 2020
country : Russia
timing : 19:57'
genre : fiction film
producer : Ivan Petukhov

written by Ivan Petukhov
produced by Dmitry Lobkov
DoP Mikhail Krichman
music by Mikhail Mishchenko
sound by Dmitry Batyzhev
editor Maria Likhacheva
production designer Sergey Tyrin
cast: Timofey Tribuntsev, Sergey Neudachin, Sergey Gabrielyan, Evgeny Egorov, Igor Savochkin, Elena Doronina, Konstantin Chepurin, Robert Fishman, Denis Medvedev, Daria Belova
production company: BAZELEVS

5 members of a 3rd rate marching band goes off for a gig. They are driving along a rough road in the Moscow region, in a hopelessly tattered old minibus. They exchange glances with one another, each musician clearly battered by life. Not one of them suspects that this mundane trip for some extra cash will unexpectedly force each and everyone one of them to reconnect with their essence.

International Youth Festival of Television Films and Programs "Telemania" (2020, Russia, Moscow and Saint Petersburg)
Golden Eagle Award, Nominee in the category "Best Short Film" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
ShorTS International Film Festival (2021, Italy, Trieste)
Moscow International Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
World Street Film Festival (2021, cities of Russia and the world)
International Short Film Festival "The Unprecedented Cinema" (2021, Estonia, Maardu, Tallinn)
International Film Festival Western Gate, Best Short Film (2021, Russia, Pskov)
Kinoles Open-air Film Festival (2021, Russia, St. Petersburg)
Deep Fried Film Festival (2021, UK, Cotebridge)
KONIK Film Festival, Diploma "For the acting ensemble" (2021, Russia, Moscow)
Radiant Angel International Charity Film Festival, Special Diploma (2021, Russia, Moscow)
PROVINZIALE - Filmfest Eberswalde, Audience Award (2021, Germany, Eberswalde)
International Shukshin Film Festival, Diploma for the Best Screenplay (2021, Russia, Barnaul)
Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (2021, Russia, Moscow)
International Festival of Films and TV Films of Spiritual and Moral Content "Saint Vladimir" (2021, Russia, Sevastopol)
International Orthodox Film Festival "Pokrov", 3rd Short Film Award (2021, Ukraine, Kiev)
Lublin Film Festival (2021, Poland, Lublin)
Evenings of Russian Cinema in Bordeaux (In Ciné Véritas Europe), Best Fiction Film (2021, France, Bordeaux)
Russian Educational Film Festival "Growing Up Together" (Vsrosleem vmeste) (2022, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
VKRATZE! International Short Film Fest (2022, Russia, Volgograd)

Director’s statement

Play for everyone is a light drama about how a mundane trip of a 3rd rate ban turns into a journey to their long forgotten essence. Their minibus barely starts, and then goes on, trembling along a provincial Moscow road to an unknown location.

In that bus we find 50-year-old musicians, driving and living along, without any hope for change.

But there is a newbie on their team. A very young musicians. Life hasn’t had the chance of blunting his «ear», his attention to others, his ability to listen, to see, to feel.

Thanks to him the others will be able to reclaim those abilities. And with them, they will reclaim hope. Play for everyone is a story about non-heroes. About down-to-earth people that you can run into in the subway, at the train station, in the crowd. Real people, not made up. Little people that — contrary to popular opinion — are capable of great achievements not only in the movies, but in real life. That is why it’s crucial to tell their story.

ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:

Ivan Petukhov was born on 11.10.1984 in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan. In 2007 he graduated from the Department of Journalist of the Moscow State University. Worked in advertising. From 2018 onwards — the creative director of the McCann Moscow Advertising company. Afterwards — the creative director of «Bazelevs». Currently — a screenplay author, director and creative producer.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2020 - "Play for everyone", short film
2020 - "Locked up", mini-series
2020 - "Alice", mini-series
2019 - "Feat", short film
2018 - "No", short film
2014 - "Gift", short film