Drama, comedy / 100 min / Russia / 2017 Moscow International Film Festival - People's Choice Award “Sputnik over Poland” Film Festival Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival A film by Vladimir Kott ("Mukha", "Gromozeka") Cast: Marina Neyolova ("Autumn Marathon" by Georgiy Daneliya - Berlinale & Venice Awards,"The Barber of Siberia" by Nikita Mikhalkov), Evgeny Mironov ("House of Fools" by Andrei Konchalovsky - Venice - Grand Juzy Prize, "Love", "Matilda"), Alisa Freindlikh ("Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky - Cannes - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, "Office Romance", "To Love...", ), Sergey Puskepalis ("How I Ended This Summer" by Alexey Popogrebskiy - Berlinale - Best Actor)
Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation and in order to simplify the procedure for her beloved, but always busy son, who is working as a business coach in the capital, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own funeral. |