One vodka. One stranger. Twenty minutes to feel something.
The only bonus in the simple, uncomplicated life of a non-charismatic fifty-year-old man is his Friday vodka in the bar along the way with a hated job home. On one of these evenings he meets Belka.
Acting
Vinogradov's worn face says decades in every silence.
Cinematography
Grey Russian bars never looked this poetically miserable.
Director
Tatyana Fedorovskaya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fedorovskaya made this as her thesis film at Moscow's top film school, shooting in actual working-class bars with real drinkers as extras.
The title is ironic — 'Charisma' refers to what the protagonist completely lacks, making Belka's interest in him inexplicable and possibly divine.
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