Natalya MESHCHANINOVA
Наталия МЕЩАНИНОВА
Natalia MECHTCHANINOVA
Russia, 2013, 90mn 
Colour, fiction
Kombinat "Nadezhda"
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Комбинат «Надежда»

 

 The Hope Factory

 Combinat "Espoir"

 
Directed by : Natalya MESHCHANINOVA (Наталия МЕЩАНИНОВА)
Writing credits : Natalya MESHCHANINOVA (Наталия МЕЩАНИНОВА), Liubov MULMENKO (Любовь МУЛЬМЕНКО), Ivan UGAROV (Иван УГАРОВ)
 
Cast
Daria SAVELYEVA (Дарья САВЕЛЬЕВА )
Polina SHANINA (Полина ШАНИНА)
Danil STEKLOV (Данил СТЕКЛОВ)
Maksim STOYANOV (Максим СТОЯНОВ)
Stepan DEVONIN (Степан ДЕВОНИН)
Sergey OVCHINNIKOV (Сергей ОВЧИННИКОВ)
Kseniya RADCHENKO (Ксения РАДЧЕНКО)
Aleksandra MAKARSKAYA (Александра МАКАРСКАЯ)
 
Cinematography : Ivan MAMONOV (Иван МАМОНОВ), Yevgeni TSVETKOV (Евгений ЦВЕТКОВ)
Produced by : Zaur BOLOTAEV (Заур БОЛОТАЕВ), Aleksandr PLOTNIKOV (Александр ПЛОТНИКОВ), Yelena STEPANISHCHEVA (Елена СТЕПАНИЩЕВА)
Companies : ЗАО "Лук-фильм", «Первое творческое объединение». First Creative Union, Look Film. "Look film", "Première association de création".
Release Date in Russia : 25/01/2014
 

Awards :
Award of Young critics "Golos" Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Главный приз на 19-м Международном кинофестивале в Вильнюсе (секция "Baltic Gaze", март 2014). Grand prix du Festival International de Vilnius (section "Baltic Gaze", mars 2014).

Plot synopsis
Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape which is so blurry, and for love which is so insecure.
A dramatic coming-of-age story about two girls - two rivals who pursue the same goal of leaving their homeland but who take different steps to reach it, testing the blurring boundaries of morality and transgression.
Source : http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/
 

commentaries
Les sept meilleurs films consacrés à la réalité russe, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2019
От мата до секса: Что и как запрещали показывать в наших кинотеатрах [films interdits dans les films russes], Kinopoisk, 2017
L’espace comme piège dans les films russes contemporains, Eugénie ZVONKINE, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2017
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- "Forbidden" contemporary Films, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Journées cinématographiques, Saint Denis (France), 2018
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2015
- Melbourne International Film Festival - MIFF, Melbourne (Australia), 2014
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2014
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2014
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2014