- year : 2018
- country : Russia
- timing : 11:21'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Ekaterina Merkulova
written by Ekaterina Gubanova, Ekaterina Merkulova
produced by Ekaterina Merkulova, Tatyana Zhuravel
DoP Vasiliy Ocheretnyuk
sound by Victoria Apalko
editor Varvara Aleshkevich
production designer Daria Balashova
cast: Andrey Krupnik, Liana Ermakova, Dmitriy Sokolov, Evgeniy Shmelev, Gennady Greznev
production company: Moscow Film School
Unlucky insurance service manager has to sale 100 medical insurances in a week, which are of no need for people, in order to safe his job. In the moment of extreme despair, he obtains the new ability to see the term of life of each person. The sequence of good deals is broken by the last customer who changes everything.
- Open Film Festival of Student and Debut Films "St. Anna" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- International Short Film Festival "Human Cinema" (2018, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
- International Festival of Short Films "Porto 7" (2018, Portugal, Porto)
- Kalat Film Festival (2018, Italy, Sicilia)
- Shortz! Film Festival (2018, USA, Chico)
- Osnabrück Independent Film Festival (2018, Germany, Osnabrück)
- Short Film Festival "Civil Projector", Best Foreign Film (2018, Ukraine, Nikolaev)
- International Film Festival "Northern Character" (2018, Russia, Murmansk)
- Kimera International Film Festival (2019, Italy, Termoli)
- All-Russian Festival of Author’s Short Films "ArtKino" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Ekaterina Merkulova was born on 09.10.1991 in Novokuznetsk, Russia. In 2013 graduated from St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance. In 2016 graduated from Moscow Film School as a film director. At the moment she is a financial controller of Guerlain at LVMH Russia.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 - "The Countdown", short student film \ debut