In Deep Sleep (2020)
Victor was having a wash in his cabin when the boatswain called him to the phone. Although Victor had already heard: “Nika died”, he shouts all the same: “I can’t hear!”. Victor goes onto the mainland. After two days without sleep he reaches the hospital. When the doctor has finished speaking, Victor indifferently turns away to the window. All the details of this view from the window suddenly feel closer to him. Victor goes outside. The street is fast asleep. The entire town is asleep, as if extinct. But everything is breathing, snoring, muttering in a dream. This sleeping town is like a nightmare. In this nightmare those helplessly asleep are intertwined with the memories of his love. Victor wanders around the town in search of a person who is also, like him, on this side of reality. And he finds him.
Director:
Mariya Ignatenko
Writer:
Mariya Ignatenko
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Vadim Korolev as Victor |
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Dmitriy Kubasov as Dmitry |
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Lyudmila Duplyakina as Nika |
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Galina Lebedinets as Victor's mother |
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Vasilisa Zemskova as Nika's friend |
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Timofey Dashuk as sleeper |
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Andrey Krivenok as |
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Igor Traflyalin as |
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Elizaveta Vitkovskaya as |
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Sergey Borsuk as |
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Evgeny Rodin as |
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Vasilisa Zemskova as |
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Elena Chekmazova as |
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Vitaly Skorodumov as |
| Directing | Mariya Ignatenko | Director |
| Writing | Mariya Ignatenko | Screenplay |
| Production | Katerina Mikhaylova | Producer |
| Production | Konstantin Fam | Producer |
| Production | Lyudmila Duplyakina | Executive Producer |
| Production | Oksana Skoropad | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Veronika Solovyeva | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Roman Kurochkin | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Lyudmila Duplyakina | Production Design |
| Editing | Mariya Ignatenko | Editor |
| Sound | Roman Kurochkin | Sound |
| Sound | Roman Kurochkin | Sound Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Duplyakina | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vera Baratova | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Mariya Ignatenko | Casting |