Two Tanyas, 80 years apart, bleeding into one soul—acting class just got *real*.
Thirty-five-year-old Tanya is a successful modern resident of St. Petersburg. In the evenings, she attends acting classes, where she is assigned to prepare a monologue based on the Siege diary of a woman also named Tanya. Tanya, in the present, begins to imagine herself in the place of Tanya from the past. The two realities gradually intertwine.
Acting
Polina Grishina's dual role is technically invisible, emotionally shattering.
Direction
Erokhina's seamless reality-blur makes you doubt which Tanya is 'real'.
Production
St. Petersburg locations ghosted by Leningrad's absence—devastating production design.
Director
Alisa Erokhina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Siege of Leningrad remains Russia's most mythologized trauma; this film dares to make it personal rather than patriotic. Erokhina deliberately cast non-professionals from St. Petersburg theatre scenes.
The 80-minute runtime mirrors a standard acting class—Erokhina wanted audiences to feel the temporal pressure Tanya experiences. The diary used is a composite of real Siege documents, but the 'second Tanya' is entirely fictional, making her intrusion into history the film's most radical gesture.
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