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My Russian Ustye
Мое Русское Устье
Premiere: Far eastern premiere
Production country: Russia
Year of production: 2024
Length: 47 min.
Rating (age category): 12+
Film-category (genre): Documentary
Director: Sergey Golovetsky
Producer: Leonid Sevastyanov, Fedor Lukovtsev
Screenwriter: Igor Chikachev, Sergey Golovetsky
Composer: Fyodor Krestyanin
DOP: Irina Uralskaya
Editor: Sergey Garkavy
Sound director: Alexander Trukhan
Cast: Igor Chikachev, Tamara Chikareva, Polina Efimova, Yulia Kuzmicheva, Efrosinya Chikareva, Evdokia Kiseleva, Lyubov Lebedeva, Alena Lebedeva, Anatoly Alekseev
Production company: World Union of Old Believers «Russian Faith»
The documentary film «My Russian Ustye» narrates the historical version of how the mouth of the Indigirka River was populated by Russian pioneers - Novgorodians, who arrived by the Northern Sea Route long before Nikon's church reforms.
Selected festival history
2019:
  • Russia festival in Yekaterinburg (prize for the best short film)
  • Sports film festival in Tolyatti in the category «Sport and personality» (grand prix)
2023:
  • Prize for directing at the Northern Character festival in Murmansk
  • Prize for directing at the Date with RUSSIA festival in Arkhangelsk
  • Prize for directing at the Radonezh festival
  • Sergey Golovetsky
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    Sergey Golovetsky, born November 23, 1959 in Molodechno, Minsk region.
    In 1982 graduated from the architectural department of the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute. In 1991 graduated from the documentary film workshop of VGIK (workshop of V.P. Lisakovich). Since 1999 lives and works in Moscow (special projects department of Channel One).

    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    2021 – The World Beyond the Mountains
    2016 – Old Faith, New Land
    2008 – The Secret of June 22
    2007 – Andrey Bitov. Writer in a Half-Written World
    1997 – Medical Examination