Timur ALPATOV
Тимур АЛПАТОВ
Timour ALPATOV
Russia, 2021, 50mn 
serial
The Painter
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Художник

 

 Le Peintre

 Khudozhnik

 
Directed by : Timur ALPATOV (Тимур АЛПАТОВ)
Writing credits : Yevgeni KEROV (Евгений КЕРОВ), Savva MINAYEV (Савва МИНАЕВ), Aleksandr OLEYNIKOV (Александр ОЛЕЙНИКОВ)
 
Cast
Andrey SMOLYAKOV (Андрей СМОЛЯКОВ) ...major Efimov
Aleksandr GORBATOV (Александр ГОРБАТОВ) ...captain Sazonov
Darya URSULYAK (Дарья УРСУЛЯК) ...Sveta Akimova
Aleksandr USTYUGOV (Александр УСТЮГОВ)
Sergey GAZAROV (Сергей ГАЗАРОВ)
 
Cinematography : Yuri KOKOSHKIN (Юрий КОКОШКИН)
Production design : Viktor SHMELEV (Виктор ШМЕЛЕВ), Svetlana VOLTER (Светлана ВОЛЬТЕР)
Editing : Azamat ERMATOV (Азамат ЕРМАТОВ)
Produced by : Yulia SUMACHEVA (Юлия СУМАЧЕВА), Timur WEINSTEIN (Тимур ВАЙНШТЕЙН), Anton ZLATOPOLSKY (Антон ЗЛАТОПОЛЬСКИЙ)
Production : Телеканал «Россия 1», кинокомпания «Вайт медиа» / Chaîne "Russia 1", Société "Vaït media"
Release date in Russia : 17/10/2022
 

Plot synopsis
March 1944. On the front, the Red Army is on the offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front and it seems that the total annihilation of fascist Germany is imminent. However, the joy of the coming victory is overshadowed by a series of audacious and barbaric murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the few testimonies collected by chance, the group of attackers changes constantly. And each time they leave portraits of the victims at the scene of the crime. Because of their drawings and cruelty, the gang was called "The Head of the Dead" and its leader "The Painter".
Major Efimov and Captain Sazonov are in charge of the investigation. However, the further they advance in the investigation, the more they are convinced that the murders and looting are just a cover. When Rudakov, an old friend of Sazonov, joins the NKVD investigation, each of the protagonists is suspected...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Festival « 17 moments » Viatcheslav Tikhonov, Pavlovski Possad (Russia), 2023
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2023