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Genre: drama
Production director: Nigina Sayfullaeva

18+
Duration: 93 min 32 sec
Director of photography: Mark Ziselson
Script writers: Lubov Mulmenko, Nigina Sayfullaeva
Art director: Marusya Parfenova-Chukhray
Producers: Igor Tolstunov, Sergey Kozlov, Sergey Kornikhin
Produced by: «Igor Tolstunov’s Film Production Company» (PROFIT) & «Droog drooga» Film Company with the support of the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation

Cast:
Sergey (father) – Konstantin Lavronenko
Sasha – Alexandra Bortich
Olga – Marina Vasilyeva
Kirill – Kirill Kaganovich
Sveta – Anna Kotova.

Synopsis
Two 17-year-old Moscowite girls, Olya and Sasha, are going to the Crimea to meet Olya’s father Sergey. Sergey has lived in a small seaside village his whole life and he has never seen his only daughter. When Olya finds herself at the threshold of her father’s house, she gets scared of meeting him. Olya asks Sasha "to trade places with her". So Sasha introduces herself as Olya and pretends to be Sergey’s daughter while Olya claims to be her best friend. At first girls have their fun. Little did they know that this innocent joke will turn into great drama and change their lives forever.

AWARDS

2015

  • Marbella International Russian Film Festival (Marbella, Spain) – Best main actor.

2014

  • XXV Open Russian film Festival “Kinotavr” (Sochi, Russia) – Special Jury Prize;
  • Film Festival Baltic Debuts – Grand-Prix;
  • St.Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films BEGINNING (St.Petersburg, Russia) – Best film (competition program, debut fiction films)
  • Russian Film Festival (Geneva, Switzerland) – Best Directing;
  • VIII Russian Film Festival “Sputnik” (Warsaw, Poland) – Grand-Prix;
  • XVIII Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia) – Special Jury Prize;
  • XXII Honfleur Russian Film Festival (Honfleur, France) – Best debut fiction films; Best actress;
  • XX International Film Festival “Stalker” (Moscow, Russia) – Best debut film;