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Vera
Вера
Year of production: 2023
Production country: Russia
Production company: Film studios named after. M. Gorky
Director: Ira Volkova
Producer: Yuliana Slashcheva, Lika Blank, Hasmik Movsisyan
Screenwriter: Yaroslava Pulinovich
Composer: Alexey Rybnikov
D.O.P.: Lyubov Knyazeva
Editor: Ira Volkova
Production designer: Ekaterina Lizogubova, Victoria Lamshina
Costume designer: Natalya Kanevskaya, Alexey Filyushkin
Make up artist: Daria Palamarchuk, Alevtina Kapranova, Natalya Lukaneva
Sound Director: Anton Karakolev-Peterkov
Cast: Victoria Tolstoganova, Timofey Timkov, Polina Merkuryeva, Alexey Rozin, Olga Sutulova, Zhenya Gromova, Olga Lapshina, Ivan Kochkin, Maria Mekle, Natalya Bochkareva, Elena Nesterova, Andrey Bogatyrev, Alexander Userdin, Yulia Polynskaya, Tatyana Usatova, Olga Kavalay-Aksyonova, Anna Kapaleva, Pavel Dubin, Alexey Gubkin, Dmitry Urosov
Film category: Drama
Rating: 16+
Length: 115 min.
Production country: Russia
Production company: Film studios named after. M. Gorky
Director: Ira Volkova
Producer: Yuliana Slashcheva, Lika Blank, Hasmik Movsisyan
Screenwriter: Yaroslava Pulinovich
Composer: Alexey Rybnikov
D.O.P.: Lyubov Knyazeva
Editor: Ira Volkova
Production designer: Ekaterina Lizogubova, Victoria Lamshina
Costume designer: Natalya Kanevskaya, Alexey Filyushkin
Make up artist: Daria Palamarchuk, Alevtina Kapranova, Natalya Lukaneva
Sound Director: Anton Karakolev-Peterkov
Cast: Victoria Tolstoganova, Timofey Timkov, Polina Merkuryeva, Alexey Rozin, Olga Sutulova, Zhenya Gromova, Olga Lapshina, Ivan Kochkin, Maria Mekle, Natalya Bochkareva, Elena Nesterova, Andrey Bogatyrev, Alexander Userdin, Yulia Polynskaya, Tatyana Usatova, Olga Kavalay-Aksyonova, Anna Kapaleva, Pavel Dubin, Alexey Gubkin, Dmitry Urosov
Film category: Drama
Rating: 16+
Length: 115 min.
Vera lives on herfamily problems: her eternally ill husband Kostya and her fifteen-year-old son Romka. Vera is happy with everything, until her husband's first love suddenly appears on the horizon - the beautiful Lyudmila and her daughter Yulia. There is nothing special about the latter, but, as luck would have it, it is this girl that Romka is interested in. Now she is seriously thinking about divorce and exchanging an apartment, trying to force her son to move away from Yulka.
Selected festival history
2023
- Festival of film adaptations "Chitka 2.0" (participant in the competition program)
- Winter Film Festival (participant of the competition program)
Ira Volkova
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Ira graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University, Faculty of Journalism (2000), Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors in Moscow (2005). She has been teaching at VKSR since 2010 as a Montage teacher (together with Vladimir Fenchenko), and has led workshops together with Pavel Lungin. Curator of the workshop at the School of Design of the HSE University. Ira is a laureate of Russian and international film festivals.
DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - Kindergarten
2019 - St. Petersburg theaters
2017 - Kostik
2016 - Treasure
2014 - Dialogues
Ira graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University, Faculty of Journalism (2000), Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors in Moscow (2005). She has been teaching at VKSR since 2010 as a Montage teacher (together with Vladimir Fenchenko), and has led workshops together with Pavel Lungin. Curator of the workshop at the School of Design of the HSE University. Ira is a laureate of Russian and international film festivals.
DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - Kindergarten
2019 - St. Petersburg theaters
2017 - Kostik
2016 - Treasure
2014 - Dialogues
