| Director | | Alexei Popogrebsky | 
Filmography
1994 Mimokhod (short doc.)
2001 Cunning Frog (short)
2003 Roads to Koktebel (co-direction: Boris Khlebnikov)
2006 Simple Things
Biography
Born in 1972, he studied Psychology at Moscow State University. During his studies, he teamed up with Boris Khlebnikov to make the short film Mimokhod in 1994. A few years later,they both debuted with Roads to Koktebel, which won the Special Jury Prize (Silver George) and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 25th Moscow IFF, as well as the Phillip Morris Prize at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2003 and the Special Prize at the the “Window to Europe” Festival (Vyborg, Russia).
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Simple Things / Alexei Popogrebsky |  Sergei Maslov, an anesthesiologist in a St. Petersburg hospital, never took life too seriously. But now life takes a serious turn on him, as he gets into problems with his girlfriend, his daughter runs away from home and his wife declares she is pregnant.To add to this, Zhuravlev, Sergei’s private patient, once a famous actor and now forgotten, makes him an offer Sergei should better refuse. Or better not? Too many choices for a man for whom it’s best not to think.
| | Director: | Alexei Popogrebsky | | Script: | Alexei Popogrebsky | | Photographer: | Pavel Kostomarov | | Montage: | Ivan Lebedev | | Music: | Dmitriy Katanov, Art Direction: Olga Osipova | | With: | Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei Maslov), Leonid Bronevoy (Zhuravlev), Svetlana Kamynina (Katya) | | Producer: | Roman Borisevich | | Production: | Koktebel Film Company | | Production Country: | Russia | | Type: | 35mm, Color | | Duration: | 108' | | Production Year: | 2006 | | Screening Schedule | | PAVLOS ZANNAS: | Friday, November 16, 2007 - 18:00 | | JOHN CASSAVETES: | Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 18:00 | | Return |
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