Andrey ZAYTSEV
Андрей ЗАЙЦЕВ
Andreï ZAITSEV
Russia, 2011, 93mn 
Colour, fiction
The Layabouts
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Бездельники

 

 Les Désoeuvrés

 Bezdelniki

 
Directed by : Andrey ZAYTSEV (Андрей ЗАЙЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Andrey ZAYTSEV (Андрей ЗАЙЦЕВ)
Based on the early songs by Viktor Tsoy
 
Cast
Anton SHAGIN (Антон ШАГИН) ...Solovey
Polina FILONENKO (Полина ФИЛОНЕНКО) ...Ekaterina
Andrey SHIBARSHIN (Андрей ШИБАРШИН) ...Aleksandr
Aleksandra TYUFTEI (Александра ТЮФТЕЙ) ...Aleksandra
Richard BONDAREV (Ричард БОНДАРЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Ivan FINOGEEV (Иван ФИНОГЕЕВ)
Production design : Olga KHLEBNIKOVA (Ольга ХЛЕБНИКОВА)
Sound : Sergey OVCHARENKO (Сергей ОВЧАРЕНКО)
Produced by : Maksim KOROLYOV (Максим КОРОЛЕВ), Nadezhda MIKHALKOVA (Надежда МИХАЛКОВА)
Production : Studio Sentyabr («Сентябрь»), VVP Alyans («ВВП Альянс»)
Film revenue in Russia : 0.0102 million dollars
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb
Awards :
Best actor Anton SHAGIN , Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2013
Award Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2012
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2011
Plot synopsis
This is the story of a young layabout, who leads a merry and easy life. He strums his guitar, writes songs and gets drunk with his friends layabouts. A common almost routine case of betrayal makes a radical change. A poet is born.
 
Commentaries
Andrei Zaitsev: The Layabouts (Bezdel’niki, 2008-2011), Sergey TOYMENTSEV, kinokultura.com, 2012
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2013
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2012
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2012
- International Festival of Young Cinema VOICES, Vologda and Cherepovets (Russia), 2012
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2012
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2012
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2012
- International Film Festival Zerkalo. Tarkovsky's Philosophy, Ivanovo (Russia), 2012
- Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2011