Director & scriptwriter Konstantin Lopushansky

Camera Nikolai Pokoptsev

Design Larisa Shilova

Music Andrei Sigle

Cast: Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Ilyin, Valentin Golubenko, Kira Kreilis-Petrova, Valentina Kovel, Mikhail Khrabrov, Natalia Akimova, Nora Gryakalova, Alexei Ingelevich, Nikolai Levykin, Valery Garkalin, Irina Rakshina, Tatiana Tarasova, Alexander Zhdanov, Andrei Sharonov

Producers Alexander Golutva, Raisa Proskuryakova

Production Lenfilm Studio, 2PiKo, Russian Film Committee, ZDF/Arte, Orient Express

A parable about Doomsday which comes to modern-day Russia. The Apocalypses begins. In order to save the children from the orphanage the teacher sails to the dying Petersburg. People try to find an answer to the question why the catastrophe has happened. But it proves to be difficult, because some ambiguity, some game looms behind. The horrible suspicion arises that everything that is happening is imitated, staged.

 

* Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Forum of New Cinema) at the Berlin IFF