Avdotya SMIRNOVA
Авдотья СМИРНОВА
Avdotia SMIRNOVA
Russia, 2006, 80mn 
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Other titles : Relations
 
Directed by : Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
Writing credits : Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
 
Cast
Khelga FILIPPOVA (Хельга ФИЛИППОВА) ...La flagorneuse
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА) ...Nina
Aleksey POPOGREBSKY (Алексей ПОПОГРЕБСКИЙ)
Mikhail PORECHENKOV (Михаил ПОРЕЧЕНКОВ) ...Ilya
Andrey PROSHKIN (Андрей ПРОШКИН)
Irina ROZANOVA (Ирина РОЗАНОВА)
Natalia RUDNAYA (Наталья РУДНАЯ) ...La mère de Nina
Nastia SEGLIA (Настя СЕГЛИА) ...Macha
Dmitry SHEVCHENKO (Дмитрий ШЕВЧЕНКО) ...Nikita
Egor TOMASHEVSKY (Егор ТОМАШЕВСКИЙ)
Leonid YARMOLNIK (Леонид ЯРМОЛЬНИК) ...Monia
 
Cinematography : Sergey MACHILSKY (Сергей МАЧИЛЬСКИЙ)
Music : Boris GREBENSHIKOV (Борис ГРЕБЕНЩИКОВ), Pyotr KLIMOV (Пётр КЛИМОВ), Aleksey STEBLYOV (Алексей СТЕБЛЕВ)
Sound : Lev EZHOV (Лев ЕЖОВ)
Produced by : Mariya AVERBUKH (Мария АВЕРБУХ), Aleksey UCHITEL (Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ)
Production : Rock Films
Film revenue in Russia : 0.1 million dollars
 

Awards :
Best actress Anna MIKHALKOVA , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2007
Best first film Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006

Plot synopsis
Love story.
Ilya lives in Moscow, Nina in Petersburg. He is a successful businessman, owner of hunting shops. His wife is beautiful and intelligent, a good housewife, and they have a twelve-year old daughter. Nina is an advertising agent.. Her husband is intelligent and caring, having taken on all family business; their son is in the second grade at school. Somewhere between St Petersburg and Moscow they meet Ö and fall in love with each other. A series of meetings followsÖ hotels, inns, romantic walksÖ Gradually the sense of lightness disappears, but the pressing need to see each other remains. As they are grown-up family people, they had agreed from the start that they would not to divorce, nor disturb their spouses with suspicion. But this is clearly impossible.
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Commentaries and bibliography
Avdot'ia Smirnova : Relations (Sviaz', 2006), Lucy FISHER, kinokultura.com, 2007
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2019
- Cinemania : World Film Panorama, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008
- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2007
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2007
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2007
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2007
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2007
- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2006
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2006
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2006
- Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2006
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2006
- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2006
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2006
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
- Festival of Festivals, St Petersburg (Russia), 2006
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2006
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2006

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