Bakhtyar KHUDOYNAZAROV
Бахтиер ХУДОЙНАЗАРОВ
Bakhtier KHOUDOINAZAROV
Russia / Germany / France / Italy / Ukraina, 2003, 92mn 
Colour, fiction
Chic - The Suit
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Шик

 

 Le Costume

 shik

 
Directed by : Bakhtyar KHUDOYNAZAROV (Бахтиер ХУДОЙНАЗАРОВ)
Writing credits : Oleg ANTONOV (Олег АНТОНОВ)
 
Cast
Ingeborga DAPKUNAITE (Ингеборга ДАПКУНАЙТЕ) ...Assia
Yelena DROBYSHEVA (Елена ДРОБЫШЕВА) ...La mère de Chtyr
Nikolay FOMENKO (Николай ФОМЕНКО) ...Batia
Ivan KOKORIN (Иван КОКОРИН) ...Le muet
Andrey PANIN (Андрей ПАНИН) ...Platon
Artur SMOLYANINOV (Артур СМОЛЬЯНИНОВ) ...Gueka
Aleksandr YATSENKO (Александр ЯЦЕНКО) ...Chtyr
 
Cinematography : Vladimir KLIMOV (Владимир КЛИМОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr SHCHURIKHIN (Александр ЩУРИХИН)
Music : Daler NAZAROV (Далер НАЗАРОВ)
Sound : Rustam AKHADOV (Рустам АХАДОВ)
Produced by : Ruben DISHDISHIAN (Рубен ДИШДИШЯН)
Production : Central Partnership, Paradise, Vvys (Ввысь) / Orly Films / Pandora Film Produktion GmbH (Allemagne) / Poetiche Cinematografiche (Italie) / Inter (Интер) (Ukraine)
Release date in Russia : 03/04/2003
 

Awards :
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Andrey PANIN , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2003
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico

Plot synopsis
Three childhood friends, the Mute, the Go-getter and Gueka, have only one obsession: to get a suit made by a Western tailor who, they think, will open the doors to adulthood, but also to the high life.
It will take the Mute being killed by the rejected suitor of a young girl he had fallen in love with for his two friends to realize the futility of their actions, the "sacrifice" of their comrade marking the beginning of their entry into adulthood.
 

Commentaries
Bakhtier Khudoinazarov: Chic - The Suit (Shik) (2002), Dawn SECKLER, kinokultura.com, 2003
 
Review by Dawn Seckler on www.kinokultura.com/

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- , Pézenas (France), 2015
- Festival of Russian Cinema in Mumbai, Mumbai (India), 2009
- Russian Film Festival, Orléans (France), 2007
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2004
- "White Square" cameramen prize, Moscow (Russia), 2004
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2003
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2003
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2003
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2003