Anton Seregin

Susanna, a sixty-four year old actress, lives with her mother and for a long time hasn’t played in the theatre; only occasionally she appears at small venues with poetic concert programs. But she is haunted by the play, which she rehearsed more than twenty years ago, and which was never staged. She finds a partner; the only thing that remains is to find a theatre that will agree to produce the play.

Experimental documentary film-journey about the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 Denis Davydov. The film returns the viewer to the origins of Dionysian fun. Songs and dances, feats of arms, folk festivals, ecstatic dances, sacrifice, a festive feast and the peace of the heroes will be opened to the eye of the attentive spectator.

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.