Yelena NIKOLAEVA
Елена НИКОЛАЕВА
Elena NIKOLAEVA
Russia, 2007, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
Vanechka
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Ванечка

 

 Vanetchka

 Vanechka

 
Directed by : Yelena NIKOLAEVA (Елена НИКОЛАЕВА)
Writing credits : Eduard TOPOL (Эдуард ТОПОЛЬ)
 
Cast
Armen DZHIGARKHANYAN (Армен ДЖИГАРХАНЯН)
Maksim GALKIN (Максим ГАЛКИН)
Yevdokiya GERMANOVA (Евдокия ГЕРМАНОВА)
Vasili MISHCHENKO (Василий МИЩЕНКО)
Andrey PANIN (Андрей ПАНИН)
Nina RUSLANOVA (Нина РУСЛАНОВА)
Yelena VELIKANOVA (Елена ВЕЛИКАНОВА)
 
Cinematography : Arсhil AKHVLEDIANY (Арчил АХВЛЕДИАНИ)
Production design : Vladimir TRAPEZNIKOV (Владимир ТРАПЕЗНИКОВ)
Music : Yuri POTEYENKO (Юрий ПОТЕЕНКО)
Sound : Aleksandr ABRAMOV (Александр АБРАМОВ)
Produced by : Andrey BONDARENKO (Андрей БОНДАРЕНКО), Mikhail KALATOZISHVILI (Михаил КАЛАТОЗИШВИЛИ)
Production : Fonds Mikhail Kalatozov
Film revenue in Russia : 0.026 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 08/11/2007
 
format : 35 mm
Site : site officiel (en russe)

Awards :
Audience Award "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2007
Prix du public au Festival international Tarkovski à Ivanovo, 2007

Plot synopsis
17-year-old Nadeshda (Elena Velikanova) moves to Moscow and dreams of going to acting school. But her only friend dies in an accident and she must look after her nine-month-old baby son Vanechka. It seems the only way to save Vanechka from forced adoption is for Nadeshda to marry oligarch Pavel (Andrey Panin). (http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/filmInfo.php?film_id=5842)
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Elena Nikolaeva : Vanechka (2007), Colin BURNS, kinokultura.com, 2008
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon (USA), 2009
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2008
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2007