- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 10:01'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Zhanna Shmakova
written and directed by Zhanna Shmakova
produced by Zhanna Shmakova, Evgeny Ryashentsev
DoP Maxim Khokhlov
music by Anna Mart
sound by Petr Isachenko
editor Alexey Borisov
production designer Evgenia Shiryaeva
cast: Stanislav Belyaev, Mikhail Mukhin, Alexandra Kareeva, Andrey Petelko, Andrey Glushchenko, Oleg Prusakov
The theatre director I.P. Kolobkov is accused of staging a protest performance in a children's theater. Major Zaytsev tries to detain Kolobkov during the performance. The major's son is in the audience, therefore, in order to go on stage and catch Kolobok, he and other police officers are forced to put on bunny masks. Kolobok makes the police sing and dance until his girlfriend Lisa appears on the stage, and turns out to be the initiator of the allegations.
- Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2021, India, Madurai)
- International Short Film Festival Detmold (2022, Germany, Detmold)
- Festival del Cinema di Cefalù (2022, Italy, Palermo)
- International Film Festival "Northern Character" (2022, Russia, Murmansk)
- Kinoproba International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools (2022, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
- Sguardi Altrove International Women's Film Festival (2023, Italy, Milan)
Director’s statement
A modern reading of the Russian fairy tale Kolobok in the genre of a musical. An attempt to interpret eternal meanings through today's realities.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Zhanna Shmakova was born on 05.01.1979 in Moscow, Russia. In 2016 graduated from Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) as a producer.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "Saving Kolobok", short film \ debut