17 minutes to crush your dreams and rebuild them—Russian cinema doesn't do comfort.
Sasha is a young actor who tries in vain to build a career. His agent is rapidly losing faith in his ward, but still gives Sasha one last chance. Having suffered another fiasco, the young man will be disappointed both in himself and in his profession, but a chance meeting will change everything.
Acting
Kudrenko's raw desperation feels uncomfortably personal.
Direction
Khodyush packs a feature's worth of emotional weight into 17 minutes.
Director
Irina Khodyush
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian short cinema often explores systemic failure through intimate portraits; this follows the tradition of 'The Return' director Andrey Zvyagintsev's early work.
Georgiy Kudrenko was reportedly cast after Khodyush saw him in a Moscow stage production where he played a similarly broken character.
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