Renata LITVINOVA
Рената ЛИТВИНОВА
Renata LITVINOVA
Russia, 2020, 122mn 
fiction
The North Wind
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Северный ветер

 

 Vent du Nord

 Severnyy veter

 
Directed by : Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА)
Writing credits : Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА)
 
Cast
Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА) ...Margarita
Anton SHAGIN (Антон ШАГИН) ...Benedikt
Sofia ERNST (Софья ЭРНСТ) ...Faina
Tatyana PILETSKAIA (Татьяна ПИЛЕЦКАЯ) ...Alisa
Galina TIUNINA (Галина ТЮНИНА) ...Lotta
Svetlana KHODCHENKOVA (Светлана ХОДЧЕНКОВА) ...Matilda
Nikita KUKUSHKIN (Никита КУКУШКИН) ...Professor Zhgutik
Ulyana DOBROVSKAYA (Ульяна ДОБРОВСКАЯ)
 
Cinematography : Oleg LUKICHOV (Олег ЛУКИЧЕВ)
Production design : Nina VASENINA (Нина ВАСЕНИНА), Nadezhda VASILYEVA (Надежда ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Music : Zemfira RAMAZANOVA (Земфира РАМАЗАНОВА)
Produced by : Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА), Nadezhda SOLOVYEVA (Надежда СОЛОВЬЕВА)
Production : Fond «Zapredel'ye»
Film revenue in Russia : 1.071851 million dollars
Spectators : 238 962
Release date in Russia : 06/02/2021
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
It was a magical time when a great matriarchy reigned: women of an influential clan ruled the territory of the Northern Fields and lived in anticipation of love ... They were omnipotent, and their every desire was fulfilled, but in an instant everything changed and chaos began ..
 

Commentaries and bibliography
THE NORTH WIND : Un film de Renata Litvinova, Olivier BACHELARD, abusdecine.com, 2021
Renata Litvinova: The North Wind (Severnyi veter, 2021), Olga MUKHORTOVA, Kinokultura, 2021
Retro-futurism and the feminine carnivalesque. The cinematic spaces of Uldus Bakhtiozina’s Tzarevna Scaling and Renata Litvinova’s The North Wind, Heleen GERRITSEN, Kinokultura, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian cinema beyond borders, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2021
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2021
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2021
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2021
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2021

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