Tofik SHARVERDYEV
Тофик ШАХВЕРДИЕВ
Tofik CHAKHVERDIEV
Russia, 2010, 52mn 
Colour, documentary
My Friend Doctor Liza
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Мой друг доктор Лиза

 

 Mon amie le docteur Liza

 Moy drug doktor Liza

 
Directed by : Tofik SHARVERDYEV (Тофик ШАХВЕРДИЕВ)
Writing credits : Tofik SHARVERDYEV (Тофик ШАХВЕРДИЕВ)
Cinematography : Kazbek KUBATOV (Казбек КУБАТОВ), Tofik SHARVERDYEV (Тофик ШАХВЕРДИЕВ)
Produced by : Nikolay VOROSHCHUK (Николай ВОРОЩУК)
Production : Central Documentary Studio of Russia, Kinorezhissyor
 

Awards :
Best documentary "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2010
Best documentary "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
The film is about a doctor. Doctor Liza. Woman, who feeds and gives treatment to outcasts and tramps paying no attention to their nationality and citizenship. She is the only one who does not get salary in the “Fair Support” Foundation that she established. There is nothing about her reminding of the dreary social worker or defender (in word only) of good morals. Doctor Liza is an energetic, cheerful and amazingly charming person, who simply loves her work very much. More than one film was made about Doctor Lisa. This movie sharply contrasts the others in that it opens the world of tramps, thereby making it clear for the viewers why she, Doctor Lisa, would want all that. In particular because sometimes worthy men through no weakness or fault of their own all of a sudden can become deprived of home and rights …
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2011
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2010
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010