LIGHT UP / ЖГИ!

RUSSIA 2017,
104 MIN.

Director & scriptwriter Kirill Pletnyov Camera Sergey Mikhalchuk
Design Irina Grazhdankina
Music Artyom Mikhaenkin
Cast: Inga Oboldina, Victoria Isakova, Vladimir Ilyin, Anna Ukolova, Alexei Shevchenkov, Danil Steklov, Tatyana Dogileva, Alexandra Bortich, Nikita Kologrivy
Producers Ruben Dishdishyan, Vadim Goryainov
Production Film Company Mars Media, Film Company Sputnik, with support from the Ministry of Culture of Russia

Alevtina Romanova is a prison matron in a penal colony for women. There is only one thing that makes her stand out from the image of the strict inspector: her voice. The most notable opera singer would be jealous of it. But she rejected a career as a singer in her distant childhood and now, only occasionally when nobody is around, she sings to herself. But however much she tries to stay unnoticed, one of the prisoners secretly records her on her phone and spreads the video on the Internet. The recording immediately goes viral. Alevtina is invited to Moscow to participate in the main song show of the country. The sincere desire awakens in her to change her life, but she is absolutely not ready for the competition. The only person able to help her get ready for the performance is the very same prisoner — a singer in the past.

KIRILL PLETNYOV
Born in 1979. Actor, lm director. Graduated from St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts as stage and lm actor (2000, class of V.Petrov). He worked at the Moscow Art Theatre, Teatr.doc, and Centre of Playwriting and Directing. Received the theatre award Seagull and others. He played over 70 roles in lm and TV. In 2015 graduated from VGIK (class of scriptwriting and directing of D.Rodimin and V.Fenchenko). His shorts “6:23” (2013), “Nastya” (2015), “Mum” (2016) have won at leading festivals and received awards in Russia. His rst feature lm “Light Up” won prize for best actress at the Russian lm festival “Kinotavr”.

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