Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY
Иван И. ТВЕРДОВСКИЙ
Ivan I. TVERDOVSVKI
Russia / France / Germany, 2016, 83mn 
fiction
Zoologia
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Зоология

 

 Zoology

 Zoologie

 
Directed by : Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY (Иван И. ТВЕРДОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY (Иван И. ТВЕРДОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Natalia PAVLENKOVA (Наталья ПАВЛЕНКОВА)
Dmitry GROSHEV (Дмитрий ГРОШЕВ)
Irina CHIPIZHENKO (Ирина ЧИПИЖЕНКО)
Aleksandr GORCHILIN (Александр ГОРЧИЛИН)
Masha TOKAREVA (Маша ТОКАРЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr MIKELADZE (Александр МИКЕЛАДЗЕ)
Production design : Anna CHISTOVA (Анна ЧИСТОВА), Liubov IVANOVA (Любовь ИВАНОВА)
Produced by : Natalia MOKRITSKAIA (Наталья МОКРИЦКАЯ)
Companies : «Компания «Новые люди» /Compagnie "Les Gens nouveaux"
Film revenue in Russia : 0.0125 million dollars
Release Date in Russia : 24/11/2016
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 2017-03-15, Site

Awards :
Best actress Natalia PAVLENKOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
Best actress Natalia PAVLENKOVA , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2016
Guilde of Russian Director Prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2016
Jury Prize Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2016
20 Minutes d'audace Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2016

Plot synopsis
Natasha lives with her mother in a small seaside town. Her life is boring and evenly paced. In the zoo where she works, Natasha has already for a long time been the laughing stock. But suddenly she undergoes a strange metamorphosis and must pass through shame, hope and despair to find herself.
kinotavr.ru
 

commentaries
Иван И. Твердовский: «Зритель должен играть по моим правилам», Никита СМИРНОВ, Interview, seance.ru, 2018
Zoologie - la critique du film, Gérard CRESPO, Avoir-Alire, 2017
FAIRY TAIL. ZOOLOGIE (Zoologiya), Maël MUBALEGH, criticat.com, 2017
Ivan Tverdovskii: Zoology (Zoologiia, 2016), Elena PROKHOROVA, Kinokultura, 2017
Ivan Tverdovskii: Zoology (Zoologiia, 2016), Olga MESROPOVA, Kinokultura, 2017
«Зоология»: Рудиментарный роман, Ольга КАСЬЯНОВА, seance.ru, 2016
Иван И. Твердовский: «Надо найти в себе собственное, что отличает тебя от других животных, Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY, Алена СЫЧВА, Interview, proficinema.ru, 2016
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2017
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2017
- Russian Film Festival, Orléans (France), 2017
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2017-03-15
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2017
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2017
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2017
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2017
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2017
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2017
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2017
- New Cinema Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2016
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2016
- Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2016
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2016
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2016
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2016
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2016
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2016
- San Sebastian International Film Festival, San Sebastian (Spain), 2016
- International Zurich Film Festival, Zurich (Switzerland), 2016
- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2016

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