- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 40:07'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Egor Mostovshchikov
written by Evgeny Babushkin
produced by Egor Mostovshchikov, Alyona Belyakova, Polina Kuzenyatkina, Valeria Davydova, Georgy Lobushkin, Philip Volzhenin, Evgenia Chernysheva, Daria Shulik
DoPs Anton Petrov, Anatoly Naimushin, Alexey Tselovalnikov, Teymur Khalikov, Pavel Peskov
music by Fedor Balashov
sound by Fedor Balashov
editor Vasily Mostovshchikov
The documentary Carriers is a joint journalistic project of the Samizdat My friend, you’re a transformer and Citymobil. This is a story of five taxi drivers from five Russian cities: Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Perm and Moscow. Our heroes are a Russian rapper, a former thief who has become an exemplary family man, a soldier of two armies, who worked as a security guard of the Israeli mayor, a faithful waiting wife of a convict, and a search activist, who jogs every morning in a gas mask. For centuries Russia has been exporting fur, timber, gas and the mystery of the Russian soul, but in what units can this mystery be measured? We tried to measure it in kilometers. The average taxi driver drives a million kilometers in eight years. It's like to the moon and back, and then once again – back to the endless road.
- International Christian Film Festival "Nevsky Blagovest" (2021, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- Ismailia International Film Festival (2022, Egypt, Ismailia)
- Arctic International Film Festival "Golden Raven" (2022, Russia, Anadyr)
- International festival of tourist films and TV programs "Date with Russia" (2022 Russia, Vologda)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Artdokfest/Online" (2023, Russia, Moscow)
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Egor Mostovshchikov was born on 08.05.1989 in Russia. In 2011 graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University as a journalist. He worked as a journalist in The New Times, Novaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Russian Reporter, Forbes, GQ, Afisha, Medusa, Quartz, and was the editor-in-chief of Snob.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "The Carriers", documentary \ debut
