Valery TODOROVSKY
Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ
Valeri TODOROVSKI
Russia / France, 1994, 96mn 
Colour, fiction
Katya Ismaylova
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Подмосковные вечера

 

 Katia Ismaïlova

 Podmoskovnye vechera

 
Directed by : Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Stanislav GOVORUKHIN (Станислав ГОВОРУХИН), Alla KRINITSYNA (Алла КРИНИЦЫНА), Marina SHEPTUNOVA (Марина ШЕПТУНОВА)
 
Cast
Ingeborga DAPKUNAITE (Ингеборга ДАПКУНАЙТЕ) ...Katia Ismaïlova
Aleksandr FEKLISTOV (Александр ФЕКЛИСТОВ) ...Mitia
Alisa FREINDLIKH (Алиса ФРЕЙНДЛИХ) ...Irina Dmitrievna
Yuri KUZNETSOV (Юрий КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Avangard LEONTIEV (Авангард ЛЕОНТЬЕВ)
Vladimir MASHKOV (Владимир МАШКОВ)
Natalia SHCHUKINA (Наталья ЩУКИНА)
 
Cinematography : Sergey KOZLOV (Сергей КОЗЛОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr OSIPOV (Александр ОСИПОВ)
Music : Leonid DESIATNIKOV (Леонид ДЕСЯТНИКОВ)
Sound : Gleb KRAVETSKY (Глеб КРАВЕТСКИЙ)
Produced by : Igor TOLSTUNOV (Игорь ТОЛСТУНОВ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio, TTL, Les films du rivage (France) / Dekar
Release date in Russia : 28/11/1995
 
Site : IMDb
Release date in France : 1994-11-22, Site

Awards :
Best actress Ingeborga DAPKUNAITE , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1994
Prix Nika de la meilleure image, 1994
Prix de la presse, 1994

Plot synopsis
Katya Ismaylova is in her thirties. She experiences true passion for the first time, and is ready to destroy janyway who stand in the way of her happiness. A once shy typist girl turns into a killer. Katya who types frantically on her old “Underwood” typewriter, and then spreads her backbone over wooden floor, is a deeply traumatized and outlived Beauty who is only capable of self-destruction.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Vivre sa vie Katia Ismaïlova de Valeri Todorovski, Gabriel Landry, 24 images, 1995
Katia Ismailova, Lisa NESSELSON, variety.com, 1994
В моду входит норма и с нею — Подмосковные вечера, АЛЕКСАНДР Ъ-ТИМОФЕЕВСКИЙ, kommersant.ru, 1994
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2021
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2020
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2019
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2014
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2013
- Festival du film russe à Quimperlé, Quimperlé (France), 2013
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2013
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2011
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1994-11-22
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1994
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1994
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1994

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