Avdotya SMIRNOVA
Авдотья СМИРНОВА
Avdotia SMIRNOVA
Russia, 2012, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
Kokoko
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Кококо

 

 Kokoko

 Kokoko

 
Directed by : Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
Writing credits : Anna PARMAS (Анна ПАРМАС), Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
 
Cast
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА) ...Lisa
Yana TROYANOVA (Яна ТРОЯНОВА) ...Vika
Anna PARMAS (Анна ПАРМАС)
Yulia SNIGIR (Юлия СНИГИРЬ)
Konstantin SHELESTUN (Константин ШЕЛЕСТУН)
Yevgeni MURAVICH (Евгений МУРАВИЧ)
 
Cinematography : Maksim OSADCHY (Максим ОСАДЧИЙ)
Produced by : Sergey SELIANOV (Сергей СЕЛЬЯНОВ)
Companies : CTB, Globus Film
Film revenue in Russia : 0.495 million dollars
Release Date in Russia : 14/06/2012
 

Awards :
Best actress Anna MIKHALKOVA , Yana TROYANOVA , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2012
Prize Cine-Club Federation of Russia, Russian programme, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012
Best Screenplay Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2012
Best Screenplay Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
Audience Award Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
Press award Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
Best actress Anna MIKHALKOVA , Yana TROYANOVA , FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2012
Best Screenplay Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012
Best actress Anna MIKHALKOVA , Yana TROYANOVA , Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012
Best actress Yana TROYANOVA , Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

Plot synopsis
In the morning there’s the job in the museum of ethnography, in the evening there are news on Ren-TV, and on days off there are meetings and sex with the ex-husband, a medium squad scientist. Lisa is a typical representative of the intelligentsia. Vika is a true provincial girl. For her, the holiday in Petersburg consists of vodka, parties and adventures. It seems that the two have nothing in common. However, by chance they meet and find a common ground: water and fire, a nun and a libertine, the intelligentsia and the people. Lisa and Vika are two sides of the same coin by the name of Russia. Kokoko is a never-ending comedy of Russian life!
 

commentaries
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films sur Saint-Pétersbourg que vous devez absolument voir, Elena BOBROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Avdot’ia Smirnova: Kokoko (2012), Lena DOUBIVKO, kinokultura.com, 2013
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2018
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2013
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2013
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2013
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2013
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2012
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival : PÖFF, Tallinn (Estonia), 2012
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2012
- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2012
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Festival of Festivals, St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2012
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2012
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2012
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2012
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2012
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2012