38° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 38 SHORTS

MY SISTER'S MERCY

MY SISTER'S MERCY
by Vladimir Koptsev
Country: Russia
Year: 2020
Duration: 8'


During the Soviet-Afghan War, in the days when general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Breznev, in a military hospital a young lieutenant wounded almost to death meets a young military nurse, tired almost to death. One meeting. One night. One candle. A short from Vladimir Koptsev, Alexander Sokurov’s pupil.

Biography

film director

Vladimir Koptsev

(Tolyatti, USSR) joined the Military Institute which, after two years of study, he abandoned. He then graduated in industrial and civil engineering in Tolyatti, before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he started working in television as a news reporter and as a movie stuntman. In 2018 made his first short film with Elena Koptseva, Delivery Service, and the following year he enrolled in Alexander Sokurov's course. In 2020 he directed two short films, Will I and My Sister's Mercy.

FILMOGRAFIA

Delivery Service (coregia Elena Koptseva, cm, 2018), Will I (cm, 2020), Moja ljubimaja sestra spit eshche (My Sister's Mercy, cm, 2020).

Cast

& Credits

DIRECTOR: Vladimir Koptsev. SCREENPLAY: Vladimir Koptsev. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Artur Bergart. SET DESIGN: Aleksey Soloviev, Artyom Kovalenko, Daniyar Ojakaev, Artyom Opryshkin. MUSIC: Alfred Schnittke. SOUND: Daria Nikiforova, Uliana Goryainova. CAST: Mariya Nesgovorova, Yury Mokienko, Nikita Dobrynin, Nikita Sukharev.

CONTACTS: Margarita Afonina margaf@bk.ru
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