
- year : 2017
- country : Russia
- timing : 99'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Alexander Kasatkin
written by Arkadiy Vysotskiy, Alexander Borodyanskiy
produced by Eduard Pichugin DoP Ruslan Gerasimenkov
music by Anton Lubchenko
sound by Dmitriy Vasilyev
editor Olga Proshkina
production designer Leonid Karpov
cast: Kirill Pletnev, Elena Lotova, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Yuriy Itskov
production company: Producers center "Lenfilm" LLC
Leningrad, February 1943. German air raid destroyed Block A of the Institute of experimental medicine. Containers with deathly viruses have disappeared. Severe weather prevents epidemy from outbreaking in the besieged city. However spring is coming and the thaw is setting in soon. A young lady doctor and a NKWD officer have only 72 hours to prevent the disaster. Life and death, love and betrayal are interlaced in events unfolding so quickly...
- International Film Festival of Detective Films and Television programs on Law-Enforcement Themes "DetectiveFEST", Grand-Prix (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Film Festival "Movement", Audience Award (2017, Russia, Omsk)
- Russian Film Festival "Provincial Russia" (2017, Russia, Yeysk)
- Shanghai International Film Festival (2017, China, Shanghai)
- Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (2017, Russia, Sochi)
- Cyprus International Film Festival "Golden Aphrodite" (2017, Cyprus, Nicosia)
- Urban International Film Festival (2017, Iran, Tehran)
- Festival of Historical Films "Veche" (2017 Russia, Velikiy Novgorod)
- Slemani International Film Festival (2017, Irak, Slemani)
- Golden Door International Film Festival (2017, USA, Jersey City)
- Film Festival "Stalingrad Lilacs" (2017, Russia, Volgograd)
- International Festival of military cinema named after Y.N.Ozerov (2017, Russia, Tula)
- Film Festival "St. Vladimir", Best Feature Film Prize (2017, Russia, Sevastopol)
- International Film Festival "Radiant Angel" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Festival of Patriotic Films "Motherland is In Heart" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Golden Tower", Best Director Prize, Best Actor Prize - Kirill Pletnev (2017, Russia, Nazran)
- Cottbus Film Festival (2017, Germany, Cottbus)
- International Festival of Patriotic Films "Volokolamsk line", Best Actress Prize - Elena Lotova, Historical Society Prize, Special Jury Prize (2017, Russia, Volokolamsk)
- International Film Festival of Arctic Countries, Best Feature Film (2017, Russia, Arkhangelsk)
- International Films Festival on Human Rights "Stalker", DIPLOMA OF GUILD OF FILM PRODUCERS OF RUSSIA (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Meeting", Best Feature Film Prize (2018, Russia, Obninsk)
- Views of the World Film & Music Festival (2018, Canada, Montreal)
- Charity event of the International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2018, Russia, Norilsk)
- Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona (2018, Spain, Barcelona)
- Open Russian Film Festival "Crystal Spring" (2018, Russia, Stavropol region)
- Film Festival "Season of Love - in Every Heart", Grand Prix (2018, Russia, Dzerzhinsky)
- International Festival “Sarajevo Winter” (2019, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo)
- International Film Forum "Zolotoy Vityaz" (2019, Russia, Sevastopol)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Alexander Kasatkin was born on 20.09.1968 in Moscow, Russia. Graduated from The Gerasimov Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) as a film director. In 1999 graduated from Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (VKSR) as a film director. Before his debut he worked as the first assistant in the paintings of Mikhail Kozakov and Leonid Maryagin.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2017 - "Three Days Till The Spring", full-lengh feature film
2015 - "Barista", series
2015 - "You Can Not Escape," mini-series
2014 - "Heritage", series
2012 - "Unexpected Joy", mini-series
2012 - "Daughter", full-lengh feature film
2011 - "Blind Happiness", mini-series
2011 - "One Only & Forever," mini-series
2010 - "The Hindu", series
2009 - "Precinct", series
2009 - "Moscow, I Love You!", full-lengh feature film
2008 - "The Arms", series
2006 - "Listening to Silence", full-lengh feature film