Anna Andreevna is a former actress who lived a rather selfish life, but now she's dying of an incurable disease, spending her last days in an expensive private hospice. Zhenya is a young aspiring actor who came from a provincial town and grabs any role offered. He was left out of work, since filming was suddenly suspended. To somehow exist and repay the loan he took out, Zhenya works part-time as an animator at a hospice, there he meets Anna Andreevna.
Acting
Veteran Yekaterina Vasilyeva's raw, unsentimental final role.
Writing
Dialogue that stings with truth about wasted potential.
Production
Hospice as liminal space — sterile yet suffocatingly intimate.
Director
Anton Chizhikov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian indie cinema's fascination with provincial actors chasing Moscow dreams reflects post-Soviet collapse of cultural institutions.
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