Valery RUBINCHIK
Валерий РУБИНЧИК
Valeri ROUBINTCHIK
USSR / Avstria / Germany, 1987, 163mn 
Colour, fiction
Otstupnik
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Отступник

 

 The Apostate

 Le Renégat

 
Directed by : Valery RUBINCHIK (Валерий РУБИНЧИК)
Writing credits : Valery RUBINCHIK (Валерий РУБИНЧИК)
 
Cast
Larisa BELOGUROVA (Лариса БЕЛОГУРОВА) ...Maria
Nikolay EREMENKO sr. (Николай ЕРЕМЕНКО ст.) ...Doron
Grigori GLADY (Григорий ГЛАДИЙ) ...Miller
Valentina SHENDRIKOVA (Валентина ШЕНДРИКОВА) ...Emilia
 
Cinematography : Yuri YELKHOV (Юрий ЕЛХОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr CHERTOVICH (Александр ЧЕРТОВИЧ)
Sound : Viktor MORS (Виктор МОРС)
Companies : Belarusfilm, V. Maïnich KG (В. Майич КГ), Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion, Klinkard Film (Autriche)
 

Plot synopsis
Professor Miller has invented a machine capable of creating copies of living beings. The first duplicate created is a copy of the professor himself. But unlike the original, the copy is a cruel and selfish being who, without ceremony, bursts into the professor's life and soon wants to sell his invention, capable of indefinitely creating soldiers and military structures...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2000