Goldfish / Золотая рыбка

RUSSIA
2015, 89 МИН.

Director Alexander Galibin
Script Elzyata Mandzhieva, Ludmila Gladunko (participation)
Camera Eduard Melnikov
Design Mavlodod Farasotshoev
Music Alexander Ivanov
Cast: Ivan Egorov, Yaroslav Efremenko, Maria Biork, Vladimir Verevochkin, Mikhail Stankevich
Producer Boris Tokarev
Production Film Company “Debut”

1946, Kirghizia. A woman is evacuated from Leningrad with two children – boys of six and ten. This is the time of poverty and hunger. The family is struggling for life, selling handmade rugs on the market and picking up in the ruins of abandoned houses everything that could be used at home. One day the brothers find a book with wonderful pictures in a dump. It is Alexander Pushkin’s “Goldfish”. Mother reads it to them at bedtime – and boys start to have a dream and meaning of life: to become owners of the treasured goldfish and to make three wishes, one of which, of course, would be their father’s safe and sound return.

ALEXANDER GALIBIN
Born in 1955 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Acting Department of Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Film (class of R.Agamirzyan) and from the Directing Department of GITIS (class of A.Vasiliev). He was an actor at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre and at the Actor Studio by Lenfilm Studios. Also he staged plays at the Youth Theatre on the Fontanka River, at the Theatre on Liteiny (St. Petersburg), at foreign theaters. In 2000–2003 he was the Chief Director of Novosibirsk Academic Youth Theatre “Globus”. In 2003–2006 he was the Chief Director of Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg). He directed TV-project “Hush! There is a Rehearsal” (St Petersburg’s 5th Channel). He is a co-author and host of TV-project “The Silver Age of St. Petersburg’s Directing” (Kultura Channel). In 2007 he made his debut as a film director with “Forty”. People’s Artist of Russia.

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