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ABOUT CINEPROMO Catalog THE TEACHER

THE TEACHER

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  • year : 2018
  • country : Russia
  • timing : 14:45'
  • genre : fiction film
  • producer : Maxim Elagin

written by Aleksey German Jr.
produced by Orkhan Gamzayev, Maxim Elagin
DoP Marina Levashova
sound by Ivan Gusakov
editor Denis Egorov
production designer Angelina Kovalenko
cast: Vladimir Markov, Maxim Derichev, Grigoriy Chaban, Alexander Pataki, Ricardo Marin-Vidal
production company: SAVALAN FILM

An elder literature teacher leads a lonesome life in his apartment, reads books and listen culture news. Every day he calls up his friend, who lives in a far-away town, to reminisce about their youth. He’s not interested in modern world at all, but one day it breaks right into his house by itself, turning old teacher’s life over once and for all.

  • Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival (2018, Greece, Athens)
  • Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (2018, Russia, Sochi)
  • Salón Internacional de la Luz, Best DoP Prize (2018, Colombia, Bogotá)
  • The World Festival of Street Cinema (2018, cities of Russia and the world)
  • Budapest Short Film Festival "BuSho" (2018, Hungary, Budapest)
  • Motovun Film Festival (2018, Croatia, Zagreb)
  • Shikshin Russian Film Festival (2018, Russia, Barnaul)
  • International Film Festival "Pacific Meridian" (2018, Russia, Vladivostok)
  • Kaliningrad Short Film Festival (2018, Russia, Kaliningrad)
  • Moscow Festival of Russian Cinema "Let Us Live!", Special Diploma (2018, Russia, Moscow)
  • Russian Film Festival "CineVolna", Best Director (2018, Spain, Alicante)
  • International Short Film Festival "Kurz.Film.Spiele" (2018, Germany, Konstanz)
  • International Orthodox Film Festiva "Pokrov" (2018, Ukraine, Kiev)
  • Film Festival "St. Vladimir" (2018, Russia, Sevastopol)
  • Malatya International Film Festival, Best Short Film (2018, Turkey, Malatya)
  • International Debut and Student Films Fesrival "Beginning" (2018, Russia, Saint-Petersburg)
  • International Film and TV-program Festival "Radonezh", Special Jury Prize (2018, Russia, Moscow)
  • International Film Festival "Northern Character" (2018, Russia, Murmansk)
  • International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Best Actor Prize - Vladimir Markov (2018, Russia, Orel)
  • Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2018, Madurai, India)
  • Film Festival "Black and White Rainbow" (2018, Russia, Togliatti)
  • Izhevsk Film Festival (2019, Russia, Izhevsk)
  • International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Meeting", Best Fiction Film (2019, Russia, Obninsk)
  • Chennai International Short Film Festival (2019, India, Chennai)
  • Film Festival "ZA!" (2019, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
  • Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
  • Arctic Festival "Teriberka" (2019, Russia, Murmansk)


ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Maxim Elagin was born on 13.03.1984 in Norilsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Russia. He studied at the versatile gymnasium, in the class of Journalism, Directing and Camera skills. Then he moved with his family to St. Petersburg. In 2006 graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television as a film director. Then he worked at the Lenfilm studio as the First Assistant Director. 2011-2017 studied and worked with Aleksey German Jr.

FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 - "The Teacher", short film \ debut

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