Timur BEKMAMBETOV
Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ
Timour BEKMAMBETOV
Russia, 2010, 90mn 
Colour, fiction
Six Degrees of Celebration
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Елки

 

 Les Sapins de Noël

 Yolki

Other titles : Новый год шагает по стране
 
Directed by : Timur BEKMAMBETOV (Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ)
Writing credits : Dmitry ALEYNIKOV (Дмитрий АЛЕЙНИКОВ), Timur BEKMAMBETOV (Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ), Andrey KUREYCHIK (Андрей КУРЕЙЧИК), Oleg MALOVICHKO (Олег МАЛОВИЧКО), Roman NEPOMNYASHCHY (Роман НЕПОМНЯЩИЙ)
Co-Directed by : Yaroslav CHEVAZHEVSKY (Ярослав ЧЕВАЖЕВСКИЙ), Dmitry KISELEV (Дмитрий КИСЕЛЕВ), Aleksandr VOYTINSKY (Александр ВОЙТИ́НСКИЙ), Ignas YONINAS (Игнас ИОНИНАС)
 
Cast
Vera BREZHNEVA (Вера БРЕЖНЕВА) ...Vera Brezhnev
Alina BULYNKO (Алина БУЛЫНКО) ...Varvara
Sergey GARMASH (Сергей ГАРМАШ) ...Valeri Sinitsyn
Yelena PLASKINA (Елена ПЛАСКИНА) ...Olya
Sergey POKHODAYEV (Сергей ПОХОДАЕВ) ...Vova
Artur SMOLYANINOV (Артур СМОЛЬЯНИНОВ) ...Aleksey
Sergey SVETLAKOV (Сергей СВЕТЛАКОВ) ...Evgeniy
Ivan URGANT (Иван УРГАНТ) ...Boris
Yekaterina VILKOVA (Екатерина ВИЛКОВА) ...Alina
 
Cinematography : Levan KAPANADZE (Леван КАПАНАДЗЕ), Sergey TROFIMOV (Сергей ТРОФИМОВ)
Production design : Vitali TRUKHANENKO (Виталий ТРУХАНЕНКО)
Music : Pavel ESENIN (Павел ЕСЕНИН)
Produced by : Timur BEKMAMBETOV (Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ), Suzanne MUAZEN (Сюзанна МУАЗЕН)
Production : Bazilevs
Film revenue in Russia : 22.77 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 16/12/2010
 
Plot synopsis
A comedy set in 11 different cities across Russia, involving a bizarre cast of characters that include a little girl, the President of Russia, a taxi driver and a pop diva, "Yolki" -- which means "Christmas tree" in Russian
 
Commentaries and bibliography
Timur Bekmambetov : Six Degrees of Celebration (Elki, 2010), Beach GRAY, kinokultura.com, 2011
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2013
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2011
- Semaine des films russes au Maroc, Rabat (Morocco), 2011
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
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