Ella ARKHANGELSKAYA
Элла АРХАНГЕЛЬСКАЯ
Ella ARKHANGUELSKAIA
Russia, 2007, 85mn 
Colour, fiction
Megapolis
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 Megapolis

 Megapolis

 
Directed by : Ella ARKHANGELSKAYA (Элла АРХАНГЕЛЬСКАЯ)
Writing credits : Ella ARKHANGELSKAYA (Элла АРХАНГЕЛЬСКАЯ), Fani VITAL (Фани ВИТАЛЬ)
 
Cast
Ilya_2 SHERBININ (Илья_2 ЩЕРБИНИН)
Sonua ABBASOVA (Сонyа АББАСОВА)
Yevdokiya ALEKSANDROVA (Евдокия АЛЕКСАНДРОВА)
Aliocha BLINDA (Алеша БЛИНДА)
Yevgeniya GUSEVA (Евгения ГУСЕВА)
Marianna KOVATCH (Марианна КОВАЧ)
Dasha NEDOSTUP (Даша НЕДОСТУП)
Nikolay TOKAREV (Николай ТОКАРЕВ)
Sergey YUYUKIN (Сергей ЮЮКИН)
 
Cinematography : Radik OSKAROV (Радик ОСКАРОВ)
Production design : Irina ALEKSEYEVA (Ирина АЛЕКСЕЕВА)
Music : Igor GOTSMANOV (Игорь ГОЦМАНОВ)
Produced by : Ella ARKHANGELSKAYA (Элла АРХАНГЕЛЬСКАЯ), Nina KOVALEVA-TORIELLI (Нина КОВАЛЕВА–ТОРИЕЛЛИ)
Production : Mosfilm, Fortuna film
 

Plot synopsis
Melodrama. In the contemporary megapolis, there lives a common incompletefamily — Tima, a 5-year-old «man», and his mother, Anna, «a lady in search». They are quite happytogether, if it were not gnawing in Anna’s heart — she’s alwaysseeking for a candidate to merry to. That is why, being at a street fire-show one night, she loses herson in the crowd. Tima falls intohands of juvenile homeless offenders who are making their living bydashing under cars or by blackmail. He becomes a member of theirband-family and «a source ofincome». All that had seemed important to Anna before her son’s lossnow fades into the background. Theonly Anna’s dream now is to findmoney for ransom…
Source : www.moscowfilmfestival.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2009
- International Film Festival "Festroia", Setubal (Portugal), 2008
- Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo (Egypt), 2007
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2007
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007