Sergey SNEZHKIN
Сергей СНЕЖКИН
Sergueï SNEJKINE
Russia, 1998, 120mn 
Colour, fiction
Calendula blossoms
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Цветы календулы

 

 Les Fleurs de calendula

 Tsvety kalenduly

Other titles : Marigolds in Flower / Blüten der Kalendula
 
Directed by : Sergey SNEZHKIN (Сергей СНЕЖКИН)
Writing credits : Mikhail KONOVALCHUK (Михаил КОНОВАЛЬЧУК), Sergey SNEZHKIN (Сергей СНЕЖКИН)
 
Cast
Sergey DREYDEN (Сергей ДРЕЙДЕН)
Aleksandr GOLUTVA (Александр ГОЛУТВА)
Anatoli KOTENIOV (Анатолий КОТЕНЕВ)
Ivan KRASKO (Иван КРАСКО)
Nikolay LAVROV (Николай ЛАВРОВ)
Liubov MALINOVSKAIA (Любовь МАЛИНОВСКАЯ)
German ORLOV (Герман ОРЛОВ)
Kseniya RAPPOPORT (Ксения РАППОПОРТ)
Yulia SHARIKOVA (Юлия ШАРИКОВА)
Marina SOLOPCHENKO (Марина СОЛОПЧЕНКО)
Aleksandr TYUTRYUMOV (Александр ТЮТРЮМОВ) ... Djigourda
Era ZIGANSHINA (Эра ЗИГАНШИНА)
 
Cinematography : Arto MELKUMIAN (Арто МЕЛКУМЯН), Aleksandr USTINOV (Александр УСТИНОВ)
Production design : Bella MANEVICH-KAPLAN (Белла МАНЕВИЧ-КАПЛАН), Valery YURKEVICH (Валерий ЮРКЕВИЧ)
Music : Mark FRADKIN (Марк ФРАДКИН), Aleksandr KNAIFEL (Александр КНАЙФЕЛЬ)
Sound : Eduard BANUNTS (Эдуард ВАНУНЦ)
Produced by : Aleksandr GOLUTVA (Александр ГОЛУТВА), Viktor SERGEYEV (Виктор СЕРГЕЕВ)
Production : Lenfilm, Slovo
 
Language russe

Awards :
Best Set Decoration Bella MANEVICH-KAPLAN , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1998

Plot synopsis
Psychological drama.
The movie is set in autumn near St. Petersburg in the old house of Georgy Protasov, a prominent Soviet poet, winner of numerous awards. In this abode with no men and no money there live his widow Inessa Iosifovna, his daughter Serafima, three grand-daughters and Billy-Bons, Protasov’s former secretary. Dreaming of perpetuating the memory of her husband, the widow secretly tries to get everything necessary to turn the country house into a museum. Serafima, whose husband has long since gone to America, and who is concerned about family finances, thinks about the right ways of using the land and the house. The grand-daughters each in her own way need a certain amount of money and can’t understand why they are poor. On the day of the anniversary of the grandmother and grandfather’s wedding a luxuriant car drives up to their house and a certain Rusetsky, followed by his driver-bodyguard, alights from it. The uninvited guest feels at home, lavishly lays the table and soon announces that he is purchasing the house…
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2009
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1999
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1998