Maksim ZYKOV
Максим ЗЫКОВ
Maksim ZYKOV
Russia, 2009, 19mn 
Colour, fiction
It Seems to Be Over, But it May Not Be
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Это кажется, что прошло, а на самом деле может и не прошло

 

 Il semble que ce soit passé, mais en fait peut-être que non

 Eto kazhetsya, chto proshlo, a na samom dele mozhet i ne proshlo

 
Directed by : Maksim ZYKOV (Максим ЗЫКОВ)
Writing credits : Maksim ZYKOV (Максим ЗЫКОВ)
Production design : Liubov IVANOVA (Любовь ИВАНОВА)
Other persons :
Director of Photography : Yuri NIKOGOSOV
Composer : Viacheslav ZHUKOV
Cast : Denis CHUPRIN, Natasha SMOLIANINOVA, Julian BALMUSOV, Andrei BELYAEV, David STEPANYAN, Mikhail KOGANOVICH
Production : VGIK, Контакт / Contact : Deep movie (Moscow, Ermolaevskij per. 10/1, 8‑903‑5005974), stonesteel@rambler.ru
 

Awards :
Best feature film Open Film Festival for students and beginners, Moscow (Russia), 2011
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Special Mention Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
Comedy of the absurd / tragicomic drama.
A guy called Seryozha visits his doctor’s practice to get a certificate so he may use the swimming pool, but this turns out not all that simple. Unable to bear the procedure, Seryozha loses consciousness and hits his head on a tile. Subsequently, the doctors drill a burr hole into his skull to extract what they discovered...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro (Italy), 2012
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2012
- Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot", Yerevan (Armenia), 2011
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Open Film Festival for students and beginners, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2011
- International Festival of Independent Film "Deboshirfilm - Pure Dreams", St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- Short Film Festival "ARTkino", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010