Country: Ireland
Year: 2011
Duration: 96'
Kostya is 23 years old and works as an assistant subway conductor. His life flows peacefully until one day he discovers that he has a serious cardiac illness which could kill him from one moment to the next. The young man decides to keep the information to himself and goes on living his life as usual. On the outside, his daily routine seems unchanged, but inside he can’t help but ask himself constantly about the meaning of life. “I wanted to show the feeling of ourselves in this reality as usual I try to.”
Biography
film director
Nikolay Khomeriki
Nikolay Khomeriki (Moscow, Russia, 1975) graduated from the University of Moscow in 1996 and two years later enrolled in the school of screenwriting and directing run by Vladimir Khotinenko, Paul Finn and Vladimir Fenchenko. From 2001 to 2005, he studied at the French state film school La Femis. In 2005, he was assistant director for the film Les amants réguliers by Philippe Garrell, which received a Silver Lion in Venice for best directing. In 2005, he won second prize at the Cinéfondation in Cannes with his short Together, and the next year, his feature-length film 977 participated in Cannes in the section Un certain regard, in which he also presented Tale of the Dark in 2009.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Namesake (cm, 2002), Tempête (cm, 2004), Vdvoyom (Together, cm, 2005), 977 (Nine Seven Seven) (977, 2006), Skazka pro temnotu (Tale of the Dark, 2009), Serdca Bumerang (Heart’s Boomerang, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Nikolay Khomeriki
fotografia/cinematography
Shandor Berkeshy
montaggio/film editing
Ivan Lebedev
scenografia/production design
Denis Bayer
suono/sound
Boris Voit
interpreti/cast
Alexander Yatsenko, Claudia Korshunova, Natalia Batrak, Alexander Ilyn, Renata Litvinova
produttori/producers
Svetlana Kuchmaeva, Anastasia Ragozina
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Valday Film Company
