- year : 2016
- country : Russia
- timing : 96:58'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Sergey Solovyov
written by Sergey Solovyov (based on the novel "Paradise Found" by famous Russian writer Andrey Gelasimov)
produred by Natalya Treushnikova, Sergey Solovyov, Vasiliy Vakulenko
DoP Timofey Lobov
music by Vasiliy Vakulenko, Anna Solovyova
sound by Alexander Guryanov, Dmitry Kliminov
editor Marina Rodzevich, Anna Muradyan
production designer Sergey Ivanov
cast: Nikolay Suslov, Aglaia Shilovskaya, Ilya Nagirnyak, Vasiliy Vakulenko, Danya Gavrilenko
Based on a short story "Paradise Found" by Andrey Gelasimov. On the eve of his draft day a youngster Sasha nicknamed Jagger decides to spend the modest amount of money he has saved to buy stylish sneakers. By chance the sneakers take him to a girl named Amira, with whom he spends the night. In the morning it transpires that the girl has a nine-year-old son Mitia. The boy is autistic and suffers from some other mental illness. Amira asks Jagger and his friend to help her take the boy to the orphanage.
Moscow International Film Festival (2016, Russia, Moscow)
The Ural Festival of Russian Cinema (2016, Russia, Yekaterinburg)
Russian Film Festival "Sputnik over Poland" (2016 Poland, Warsaw)
International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker" (2016, Russia, Moscow)
The nominee of the award "Golden Eagle" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
The nominee of the award "White Elephant" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
Sose International Film Festival (2017, Armenia, Yerevan)
International film festival "Listapad" (2017, Belarus, Minsk)
Open Russian Film Festival "Crystal Spring" (2018, Russia, Stavropol region)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Sergey Solovyov was born on 25.08.1944 in Kem, USSR. Graduated from the department of directing at VGIK (1969, class of M.Romm and A.Stolper). Debuted as a director in 1969 with omnibus FAMILY HAPPINESS. In 1971 directed his first feature YEGOR BULYCHYOV AND OTHERS. Winner of numerous national and international awards. His best and most wellknown works like ONE HUNDRED DAYS AFTER CHILDHOOD (1975), THE LIFEGUARD (1980), WILD PIGEON (1986), ASSA (1987), TENDER AGE (2000) are part of the «Golden Fund» of Soviet and Russian cinema. Among the director’s latest works are CLASSMATES (2010), ANNA KARENINA (2011) and ASSA-2 (2011). From 1995 to 1997 he was President of the Moscow Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2016 - SNEAKERS, full-lengh film
2009 - Anna Karenina
2008 - Assa-2
2003 - About Love
2000 - Tender Age
1987 - Assa
1986 - Wild Pigeon
1980 - The Lifeguard
1975 - One Hundred Days After Childhood
1971 - Egor Bulychev and Others