Svetlana STASENKO
Светлана СТАСЕНКО
Svetlana STASSENKO
Russia, 2003, 108mn 
Colour, fiction
Shantytown Blues
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Ангел на обочине

 

 Un ange au bord de la route

 Angel na obochine

Other titles : Мишка (Mishka)
 
Directed by : Svetlana STASENKO (Светлана СТАСЕНКО)
Writing credits : Svetlana STASENKO (Светлана СТАСЕНКО)
 
Cast
Mikhail EFIMOV (Михаил ЕФИМОВ) ...Michka dans sa jeunesse
Anatoli GUSHCHIN (Анатолий ГУЩИН) ...Kouzia
Vasili LYKSHIN (Василий ЛЫКШИН) ...Michka dans son enfance
Yekaterina MIGITSKO (Екатерина МИГИЦКО) ...Nadioukha
Gennadi NAZAROV (Геннадий НАЗАРОВ) ...Kossoy
Aleksandr TSURKAN (Александр ЦУРКАН) ...John
Andrey YEGOROV (Андрей ЕГОРОВ) ...Blek
Piotr ZAICHENKO (Пётр ЗАЙЧЕНКО) ...Kapitonytch
 
Cinematography : Irina URALSKAYA (Ирина УРАЛЬСКАЯ)
Production design : Aleksey NAZAROV (Алексей НАЗАРОВ)
Sound : Aleksandr NEKHOROSHEV (Александр НЕХОРОШЕВ)
Produced by : Yevgeniya TIRDATOVA (Евгения ТИРДАТОВА)
Production : Studio Netski (Студия "Нэцки")
Film revenue in Russia : 0.007 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 22/04/2004
 
format : 35 mm

Plot synopsis
At the end of the 70s in a small Soviet provincial town lives little Michka rejected by his parents. With his frankness, his naive boldness and his love of music, he wins the sympathy of John, a local bandit and with the help of his godfather he begins his misdeeds in bars, definitively distancing himself from his family in social breakdown.
Suddenly, John is murdered before Michka's eyes. The latter, without thinking, shoots the murderer and becomes a murderer himself.
What will become of him, released from prison and entering a country that has become completely new? Criminal or rock star?
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Svetlana Stasenko, Shantytown Blues [Angel na obochine] (2004), David MACFADYEN, kinokultura.com, 2005
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2006
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2004
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2004
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2003