Ilya DEMICHEV
Илья ДЕМИЧЕВ
Ilia DEMITCHEV
Russia, 2009, 125mn 
Colour, fiction
Kakraki
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Какраки

 

 Crowfishlike

 Kakraki

 
Directed by : Ilya DEMICHEV (Илья ДЕМИЧЕВ)
Writing credits : Ilya DEMICHEV (Илья ДЕМИЧЕВ)
 
Cast
Sergey GAZAROV (Сергей ГАЗАРОВ)
Sergey KOLTAKOV (Сергей КОЛТАКОВ)
Yelena SAFONOVA (Елена САФОНОВА)
Olga SUNN (Ольга СУНН)
Natalia VDOVINA (Наталья ВДОВИНА)
Mikhail YEFREMOV (Михаил ЕФРЕМОВ) ...official
 
Cinematography : Mikhail AGRANOVICH (Михаил АГРАНОВИЧ)
Production design : Eduard GALKIN (Эдуард ГАЛКИН)
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Sound : Stéphane ALBINT (Стефан АЛЬБИНЕ), Oleg PETRENKIN (Олег ПЕТРЕНКИН)
Produced by : Nana GETASHVILI (Нана ГЕТАШВИЛИ), Andrey KLISHAS (Андрей КЛИШАС), Saida MEDVEDEVA (Саида МЕДВЕДЕВА)
 

Awards :
Prize of the Festival President, First Films, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2009

Plot synopsis
Crawfishlike tells the story of Mikhail Mikhailovich, flawlessly played by one of the most gifted contemporary comedic actors, Mikhail Efremov. Mikhail Mikhailovich is an upper middle-class, middle-age, mediocre, bribe-welcoming bureaucrat who has an attractive wife (Natal’ia Vdovina), a somewhat loving, mediocre son, an unfaithful mistress (Elena Safonova), and a dumb, drunkard boss (Sergei Koltakov).<...>
Source kinokultura.com
 

commentaries
Il’ia Demichev : Crawfishlike (Kakraki, 2009), Masha KOWELL, kinokultura.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Film Festival ’Romantic days’ in Cabourg, Cabourg (France), 2010
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2010
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2010
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2010
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2009
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2009
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2009

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