Oleg STEPCHENKO
Олег СТЕПЧЕНКО
Oleg STEPTCHENKO
Russia, 2005, 119mn 
Colour, fiction
Velvet Revolution: A Season of Men
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Мужской сезон. Бархатная революция

 

 La Saison des hommes. Révolution de velours

 Muzhskoy sezon. Barkhatnaya revoliutsia

 
Directed by : Oleg STEPCHENKO (Олег СТЕПЧЕНКО)
Writing credits : Aleksandr KARPOV (Александр КАРПОВ), Oleg STEPCHENKO (Олег СТЕПЧЕНКО)
 
Cast
Aleksandr KARPOV (Александр КАРПОВ) ...Berdiaiev
Igor KASHINTSEV (Игорь КАШИНЦЕВ) ...Sedoï
Aleksey KRAVCHENKO (Алексей КРАВЧЕНКО) ...Verchinine
Vasili LIVANOV (Василий ЛИВАНОВ) ...Chouvalov
Aleksey PETRUKHIN (Алексей ПЕТРУХИН) ...Souvorovtsev
 
Cinematography : Mariya SOLOVIEVA (Мария СОЛОВЬЕВА)
Music : Anton GARCIA (Антон ГАРСИЯ)
Produced by : Oleg LIUBAIEV (Олег ЛЮБАЕВ), Stanislav SERDIUKOV (Станислав СЕРДЮКОВ)
Production : ROSPOFilm
Film revenue in Russia : 6.860 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 2005
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, velvetrevolution.ru

Plot synopsis
The film, which takes place in both hemispheres of the globe with the participation of presidents, drug cartel bosses, state security agents and powerful secret organizations, begins with a shocking, but quite domestic showdown. An ordinary drug lord, with the help of a golf club, disciplines his henchman, whose only crime is that his mobile phone was seized, illegally, by an overly hard-working state security agent.
Realizing the disproportion between the punishment and the degree of his guilt, the disfigured gangster is the first of the film's heroes to ask himself: what do we know about the world we live in? But he will not have to think about it. The same agent who encroached on someone else's property, not particularly thinking about the fact that a mobile phone can be more dangerous than an atomic bomb, will involuntarily have to look for an answer to this question. The speed of subsequent events is not inferior to their fascination.
Code, solutions, persecution, new corpses... The mystery is serious: its disclosure will destroy all modern man's ideas about what international politics can be done for.
 

Commentaries
Oleg Stepchenko : Velvet Revolution : A Season of Men (Muzhskoi sezon: Barkhatnaia revoliutsiia), 2005, Christina STOJANOVA, kinokultura.com, 2006
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2006