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Director & Scriptwriter Alexei Balabanov
Camera Alexander Simonov
Design Anastasia Karimulina
Music Leonid Fyodorov
Cast: Alexander Mosin, Oleg Garkusha, Yuri Matveev, Alisa Shitikova, Alexei Balabanov
Producer Sergey Selyanov
Production Film Company Ств
A large black jeep is rushing along a deserted summer road. Bandit, his friend Matvey with his old father, Musician and a beautiful girl sit in it. They are looking for a Bell Tower of Happiness, which they say is situated somewhere between St. Petersburg and Uglich, close to inactive atomic power station. The Bell Tower seize people, but not all of them. Each passenger of the big car believes it will choose him.
ALEXEI BALABANOV 1959–2013
Born in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now – Yekaterinburg). Graduated from the translation department of Gorky Pedagogical Institute (1981), and from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters & Film Directors (1990, experimental course of Auteur Cinema). Prize-winner of international and national film festivals, winner of professional film awards. His filmography includes: “Happy Days” (1991), “The Castle” (1994), “Brother” (1997), “Of Freaks and Men” (1998), “Brother 2” (2000), “The River” (2001), “War” (2002), “Blind Man's Bluff” (2005), “It Doesn't Hurt” (2006), “Cargo 200” (2007), “Morphia” (2008), “The Stoker” (2010), etc.
