Description
Synopsis:
A documentary comedy about the film industry in Russia in the mid-1990s, focusing on one provincial studio.
About the director:
Born in 1966, Alexei Fyodorchenko graduated from the engineering and economic faculty of the Ural Polytechnic Institute and the screenwriting faculty at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. From 1990 to 2005 he worked as an economist, a deputy director, and a producer and film director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. Since 2004 he has been a director and producer for the February 29 Film Company. He has won an array of prizes at various international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival, the Kinotavr and Kinoshok festivals in Russia, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Award, the Nazareno Taddei Award “for spirituality and humanity” at the Venice Film Festival, the Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival, among others. His best-known works are First on the Moon, Oatmeal, Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari, and Anna’s War. This year his film Cinema of the Era of Change received a nomination for a Nika, Russia’s national film prize, for Best Non-Fiction Film of 2019.