Ilya KHOTINENKO
Илья ХОТИНЕНКО
Ilia KHOTINENKO
Russia, 2021, 90mn 
fiction
Asphalt Sun
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Асфальтовое солнце

 

 Soleil d'asphalte

 Asfaltovoye solntse

 
Directed by : Ilya KHOTINENKO (Илья ХОТИНЕНКО)
Writing credits : Nastia KUZNETSOVA (Настя КУЗНЕЦОВА)
 
Cast
Artyom_2 FADEYEV (Артем_2 ФАДЕЕВ) ...Artiom
Polina AGREYEVA (Полина АГУРЕЕВА)
Oleg YAGODIN (Олег ЯГОДИН)
David MELKONIAN (Давид МЕЛКОНЯН) ...Mitka
Alina BABAK (Алина БАБАК)
Anfisa KAQTANOVA (Анфиса КАФТАНОВА)
 
Cinematography : Kirill GERRA (Кирилл ГЕРРА), Anna ROZHETSKAYA (Анна РОЖЕЦКАЯ)
Production design : Sergey AVSTRIEVSKIKH (Сергей АВСТРИЕВСКИХ), Nikita TRUBETSKOY (Никита ТРУБЕЦКОЙ )
Sound : Kirill SIMAKOV (Кирилл СИМАКОВ)
Produced by : Yulia MISHKINENE (Юлия МИШКИНЕНЕ)
Production : Вита Актива / Vita Aktiva
Film revenue in Russia : 0.152771 million dollars
Spectators : 36 200
Release date in Russia : 28/07/2022
 

Plot synopsis
Artyom is 15 years old. This is the age when one is not yet an adult but no longer a child. And it is during this last summer of childhood that everything falls on him: the betrayal of his father who remained abroad after his tour, the first love, the friendship forever and the breakup forever. Artyom still has a skateboard, as skateboards were called in the 80s, which Soviet teenagers were only just beginning to discover. From now on Artiom only wants one thing: to win street contests at all costs.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Il’ia Khotinenko: Asphalt Sun (Asfal’tovoe solntse, 2021), Megan McCULLOUGH, Kinokultura, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2022
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2021

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