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Original-Name:Prostoi Karandash
Простой Карандаш
English Name: The Pencil
Year: 2019
Run Time: 93'
Language: Russian
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Russia
Director: Natalya Nazarova
Producer: Denis Kovalevskiy, Maxim Dashkin, Anna Dziembowska, Boris Frumin
Cast: Nadezhda Gorelova, Vladimir Mishukov
Screenplay: Natalya Nazarova
Cinematographer: Andrey Naydenov
Editor: Olga Proshkina, Pavel Kuprikov
Sound Designer: Viktor Timshin
Costume Designer: Maja Martjanova
Production Designer: Antonina Kraevskaja
Production Company: Salt Studio, Victoria Films
World Sales: Fortissimo Films
World Sales Phone: +31 20 2159310
World Sales Email: info@fortissimofilms.com
Vyborg Okno FF 2019
Natalya Nazarova is an award-winning Russian screenwriter and director, author of numerous TV series and several successful feature films for new wave of Russian modern cinema directors.Her feature debut as a director, The Daughter (2012), won the FIPRESCI Award at the Tallinn Black Nights FF and, Warsaw IFF, Best Debut Award at the major national festival Kinotavr, and was selected for festivals in Honfleur (France), Cottbus (Germany), Gothenburg (Sweden),Palm Springs (USA), San Francisco (USA), Brussels (Belgium) and many others.
Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. She starts teaching art in a local school, and is determined to lift the spirit of the downtrodden children in her class. But she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
