Kirill PLETNYOV
Кирилл ПЛЕТНЕВ
Kirill PLETNIOV
Russia, 2017, full length film 
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Directed by : Kirill PLETNYOV (Кирилл ПЛЕТНЕВ)
Writing credits : Kirill PLETNYOV (Кирилл ПЛЕТНЕВ)
 
Cast
Inga OBOLDINA (Инга ОБОЛДИНА)
Viktoria ISAKOVA (Виктория ИСАКОВА)
Aleksandra BORTICH (Александра БОРТИЧ)
Tatyana DOGILEVA (Татьяна ДОГИЛЕВА)
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН)
Aleksey SHEVCHENKOV (Алексей ШЕВЧЕНКОВ)
Danil STEKLOV (Данил СТЕКЛОВ)
Anna UKOLOVA (Анна УКОЛОВА)
 
Cinematography : Sergey MIKHALCHUK (Сергей МИХАЛЬЧУК)
Production design : Irina GRAJDANKINA (Ирина ГРАЖДАНКИНА), Regina KHOMSKAYA (Регина ХОМСКАЯ)
Produced by : Ruben DISHDISHIAN (Рубен ДИШДИШЯН), Vadim GORIAINOV (Вадим ГОРЯИНОВ)
Production : КИНОКОМПАНИЯ МАРС МЕДИА, КИНОКОМПАНИЯ SPUTNIK при поддержке Министерства культуры РФ / Société Mars Média, Société Spoutnik avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture de Russie
Film revenue in Russia : 0.307 million dollars
Spectators : 76 606
Release date in Russia : 16/11/2017
 

Awards :
Best actress Inga OBOLDINA , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2017

Plot synopsis
Alevtina Romanova is a prison matron in a penal colony for women. There is only one thing that makes her stand out from the image of the strict inspector: her voice. The most notable opera singer would be jealous of it. But she rejected a career as a singer in her distant childhood and now, only occasionally when nobody is around, she sings to herself. But however much Romashka [Camomile] — as her friends playfully call her — tries to stay unnoticed, one of the prisoners secretly records her on her phone and spreads the video on the Internet. The recording immediately goes viral. Alevtina is invited to Moscow to participate in the main song show of the country. The sincere desire awakens in her to change her life, but she is absolutely not ready for the competition. The only person able to help her get ready for the performance is the very same prisoner — a singer in the past.
http://www.kinotavr.ru/
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2019
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2018
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2018
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2017
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2017
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2017
- International Film Festival of India : IFFI, Goa (India), 2017
- International Motivational Film Festival BRIDGE of ARTS, Rostov-on-Don (Russia), 2017
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2017