Katya and Stephanie. Portrait in the Interior

Katya and Stephanie. Portrait in the Interior

2018 · 66 min · Documentary

Life consists of worries, household chores, talk at dinner, study, fatigue and the desire to sleep. But you are still happy if your family is strong, and there are thousands of favorite things around you - from Christmas toys from my mother's childhood to Scarlatti's music, which my grandfather ordered you to listen to. Katya in the last months of pregnancy and in the process of completing the thesis - and not simple, but man-made. Katya is an illustrator and makes a children's book. Tale. About Ersh Ershovich. Stephanie will be born soon, this tale and this film are the first gifts from her parents.

Directed by Mikhail Gorobchuk · Written by Mikhail Gorobchuk

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