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THE BEST EMPLOYEE

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  • year : 2017
  • country : Russia
  • timing : 28:00'
  • genre : fiction film
  • producer : Nikolay Kotyash

written by Mariya Shulgina, Elizaveta Tikhonova
produred by Nikolay Kotyash, Pavel Peregudov, Alexey Kotkov, Vadim Bogdanov
DoPs Igor Osipov, Alexander Evdokimov
music by Pavel Sartakov
sound by Pavel Sartakov, Igor Savran
editor Matvey Epanchintsev, Nikolay Kotyash
production designers Lolita Marzaganova, Tatiana Danilova
cast: Alexandra Bayrakovskaya, Yuriy Galtsev, Anastasiya Melnikova, Evgeniya Igumnova, Vera Karpova, Sergey Umanov, Alexandra Nikitina, Natalya Agafonova

Lena has to be the best at everything she does. Even more important for her is to impress her new boss and colleagues. Lena’s main competitor is Marina whose place she has just taken. Marina left a while ago and the two women have never met. Still Lena competes with her rival in everything. She wants to be the best employee and earn love and respect of her boss and co-workers. Her struggle is desperate and ruthless and it drives her close to the edge of madness.

  • Moscow International Film Festival (2017, Russia, Moscow)
  • Shukshin Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Barnaul)
  • Kazan International Film Festival (2017, Russia, Kazan)
  • KONIK Film Festival (2017, Russia, Moscow)
  • International Short Film Festival "Koroche" (2017, Russia, Kaliningrad)
  • Festival live Cinema " kinoles" (2017, Russia, Zelenogorsk)
  • Ural Open Russian Film Festival (2017, Russia, Ekaterinburg)
  • Film Festival "Green Apple", Best Director Prize (2017, Russia, Novosibirsk)
  • All-Russian Festival of Author’s Short Films "ArtKino" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
  • German-Russian Film Festival "KinoHafen" (2017, Germany, Hamburg)
  • Akbank Short Film Festival (2018, Turkey, Istanbul)
  • Film Festival "ZA" (2018, Russia, Chelyabinsk)

 

ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:

Nikolay Kotyash was born on 11.09.1979 in Moscow. In 2002 and 2005 graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University as a geographer and a psychologist. Worked in the sphere of coaching and education. In 2014 graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Film and TV as a film director. Laureate of Russian and International film festivals. Since 2016 the chairman of Youth Center of the Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg. Works as a teacher in Moscow State Institute of Culture and State University of Film and TV in St. Petersburg.  

FILMOGRAPHY:
2017 - "The Best Employee", short film
2014 - "Еvery Other", short film
2013 - "Lost House", short film

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2016, Russia, 04:59' fashion fiction film producer Jana Nedzvetkaya
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2016, Italy, UK, 29:08' documentary producer Gloria Aura Bortolini
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