Nigina SAYFULLAEVA
Нигина САЙФУЛЛАЕВА
Niguina SAIFOULLAEVA
Russia, 2019, 82mn 
Colour, fiction
Fidelity
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Верность

 

 La Fidélité

 Vernost

 
Directed by : Nigina SAYFULLAEVA (Нигина САЙФУЛЛАЕВА)
Writing credits : Liubov MULMENKO (Любовь МУЛЬМЕНКО)
 
Cast
Anna KOTOVA-DERYABINA (Анна КОТОВА-ДЕРЯБИНА)
Pavel VOROZHTSOV (Павел ВОРОЖЦОВ)
Alexandre PAL ( Александр ПАЛЬ) ...Sergey
Yevgeniya GROMOVA (Евгения ГРОМОВА) ...Lena
Aleksey AGRANOVICH (Алексей АГРАНОВИЧ) ...Ivan
Marina VASILIEVA (Марина ВАСИЛЬЕВА) ...Katya
 
Cinematography : Mark ZISELSON (Марк ЗИСЕЛЬСОН)
Editing : Vadim KRASNITSKY (Вадим КРАСНИЦКИЙ)
Produced by : Valery FEDOROVICH (Валерий ФЕДОРОВИЧ), Sergey KORNIKHIN (Сергей КОРНИХИН), Pavel LILIENFELD (Павел ЛИЛИЕНФЕЛЬД), Yevgeni NIKISHOV (Евгений НИКИШОВ), Pavel ODYNIN (Павел ОДЫНИН)
Artistic director : Marusya PARFENOVA-CHUKHRAY (Маруся ПАРФЕНОВА-ЧУХРАЙ)
Production : КИНОКОМПАНИЯ ДРУГ ДРУГА ПРИ ПОДДЕРЖКЕ МИНИСТЕРСТВА КУЛЬТУРЫ РФ / Société "Droug drouga" avec le soutien du Ministère de la culture
Film revenue in Russia : 1.607 million dollars
Spectators : 378 126
Release date in Russia : 31/10/2019
 
Site : IMDb
Release date in France : 2021-08-11, Site

Awards :
First prize Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2020
Diploma Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2019

Plot synopsis
Lena is a talented obstetrician-gynecologist; her husband is an artist in a provincial drama theater. They are very close to each other and there is a lot of tenderness between them, but no sex. Lena suspects Serioja of having an extra-marital relationship, but she suffers in silence and does not show her jealousy. Instead of taking stock with her husband of their relationships, Lena also begins to cheat on him with passing men. Little by little, Lena loses control of this parallel life which practically redraws her main life.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Nigina Saifullaeva: Fidelity (Vernost’, 2019), Birgit BEUMERS, Kinokultura, 2021
Антистыд: «Верность» Нигины Сайфуллаевой, Ольга КАСЬЯНОВА, seance.ru, 2019
M-Appeal Acquires Russian Erotic Drama Fidelity, Leo BARRACLOUGH, variety.com, 2019
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films russes sortis 2019 que vous devez à tout prix regarder, IOULIA CHAMPOROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2019
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2021-08-11
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2021
- Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin (Ireland), 2021
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2021
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2020
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2020
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2020
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2019
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2019

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