Sonia KARPUNINA
Соня КАРПУНИНА
Sonia KARPOUNINA
Russia, 2010, 20mn 
Colour, fiction
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Шанс

 

 The Chance

 Chance

 
Directed by : Sonia KARPUNINA (Соня КАРПУНИНА)
Writing credits : Sonia KARPUNINA (Соня КАРПУНИНА)
 
Cast
Yelena SERDYUKOVA (Елена СЕРДЮКОВА)
 
Cinematography : Dmitry KARNACHIK (Дмитрий КАРНАЧИК)
Production design : German STROGANOV (Герман СТРОГАНОВ)
Other persons :
Cast : Sergey ZAKHAROV (Сергей ЗАХАРОВ), Aleksandr ZAKHAROV (Александр ЗАХАРОВ), Dmitri ORLOVICH (Дмитрий ОРЛОВИЧ), Dina SHTURMANOVA (Дина ШТУРМАНОВА
Companies : VGIK
 

Awards :
First prize Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival, Kustendorf (Serbia), 2011
Special Jury prize Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
Some event takes place in Vera's Sechkina life. In her opinion it has to change her unsuccessful life. She has won a Green Card. Vera is preparing for departure now. She takes artistic-speech lessons, does a portfolio. She hopes to realize her "not come true" dream to became an actress in the USA. In commemoration of a new stage of her life, Vera desperately tears with the past - she leaves from her job, tells to the boss everything she think about him, takes away her adult son from her ex-husband. She hopes to give her son the future which she dreams for a long time. Her belief in this crazy chance, which she hopes for so long, is unshakable. Does her dream come true? And what is the price of it?
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Open Film Festival for students and beginners, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2011
- Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival, Kustendorf (Serbia), 2011
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2010