Production :
Silvestr Production (Сильвестр Продакшн)
Plot synopsis
The twelfth film of the most independent Russian cinematographer, Konstantin Seliverstov, is, of course, a comedy,
and — again of course — about love. It exudes a pronounced note of gentle sadness along with a spicy flavor of
the haphazardly absurd, as in the plays of Eduardo de Filippo and Neil Simon or in the films of Woody Allen and Otar
Ioseliani, but with a precise and unmistakable Petersburgian accent. The story, compressed into a single day in the
unusually hot summer of 2010 could not have take place in any other city in the world, although the passions bubbling
on the screen are also characteristic of Paris, New York, and Shanghai. And so, as is usual with Seliverstovthe events of
this one day in Petersburg intersect and interweave into a tangled ball the fates of a number of odd, absurd, touiching,
and entertaining characters — including the painfully reflective composer Anna, the slovenly, supposed actor Vovik,
the ambitious dirrector‑aesthete Alexander Markovich, the infatuated Philharmonic security guard Sergei, the naive
young clerik in a housewares store Ira, and the student Marina who works on the side as a porno actress.
