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2017 | Color | 127:00

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration, and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, both are impatient to start over, to turn the page—even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears…


Direction: Zvyagintsev; Andrey
Script: Negin; Oleg, Zvyagintsev; Andrey
Production: Melkumov; Serguey, Rodnyansky; Alexandre
Photography: Krichman; Mikhail
Sound: Dergachev; Andrey
Music: Galperin; Evgeny
Cast:Fateev; Alexey, Keishs; Andris, Vasilyeva; Marina, Novikov; Matvey, Spivak; Maryana, Rozin; Alexey
Art direction: Andrey Ponkratov
Participation year at FICM: 2017

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