I am Gagarin (2017)
1991 the Soviet Union disappeared with the collapse of the country, some DJs turn towards the techno music and LSD, the capital starts to beat with a very different rthym. The directorOlga Darfy remembers her city Moscow, her youth and everyhting she lived during her 20s. Her friend Vanya Salmaksov one of the creator of the parties called GAGARIN PARTIES disappeared in 1998. The director decides then to tell about this dizzying time from fragments of experiencess interviewes, archives and memories asking herself and the people she meets in this journey: where is Vania? Where are all this intense emotions, the excitation, the romanticism? Where this time has gone?
Director: Olga Darfy
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Sergei Bugayev as Self |
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Kirill Frolov as Self |
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Igor Shulinsky as Self |
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Mikhaïl Vorontsov as Self |
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Oleg Kulik as Self |
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Artemiy Troitskiy as Self |
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Olga Darfy as Self |
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Aleksey Haas as Self |
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Ivan Salmaksov as Self (archive footage) |
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Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe as Self (archive footage) |
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Timur Novikov as Self (archive footage) |
| Production | Pavel Lilienfeld | Producer |
| Writing | Olga Darfy | Writer |
| Production | Ksenia Timofeeva | Line Producer |
| Production | Karina Sinenko | Producer |
| Sound | Andrey Antonets | Music |
| Editing | Konstantin Larionov | Editor |
| Camera | Artem Dzharayan | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Olga Darfy | Director |