Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestVera and Tatiana are the daughters of the late Soviet director and screenwriter Alexei Istomin. Vera is preparing to star in a Hollywood blockbuster and leave the country forever. Tatiana is starring in a popular TV series, but dreams of real dramatic roles. Their mother Agafya Alexandrovna heads the foundation named after her late husband and is engaged in film production and production. Circumstances force all three to start shooting a film based on Istomin's unrealized script. This project should save or finally sink the foundation. That's how two daughters and a mother end up on the same set.
Acting
Mikhalkova sisters playing fictional sisters — the meta tension is unreal
Direction
Nadezhda directing herself and her actual sister, peak family dynamics
Writing
unrealized Soviet script as ghost haunting three women
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nadezhda and Anna Mikhalkova are actual sisters, daughters of legendary director Nikita Mikhalkov — making this a thinly veiled family exorcism.
The 'foundation' structure mirrors real Russian cinema institutions struggling between Soviet legacy and capitalist reality post-1991.
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