Nika (2022)
The movie is based on the real story of Nika Turbina, once world-famous Soviet child poetess, who got completely forgotten in the 1990s. That's when we meet her: at the age of 27 Nika is full of hopes and doubts regarding her gift. Due to the age restriction, she's got just one shot to enter the Drama School, and that's her only chance to separate from her cherishing and oppressive mother. Acquaintance with a new friend Ivan gives Nika hope for a happy future, but there is still something in her memory that triggers her. Tragically cheerful, painfully confused and desperately believing in love and life after childhood, Nika puts everything on the line to overcome ghosts of the past.
Director:
Vasilisa Kuzmina
Writers:
Vasilisa Kuzmina, Yuliya Gulyan.
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Liza Yankovskaya as Nika Turbina |
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Anna Mikhalkova as Nika's mother |
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Vitaliya Kornienko as young Nika |
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Ivan Fominov as Vanya |
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Ivan Brovin as Roma |
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Egor Trukhin as Yasha |
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Evgeny Sangadzhiev as Igor |
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Ivan Makarevich as Larik |
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Nataliya Vdovina as Vanya's mother |
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Ivan Agapov as Vanya's father |
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Nikolai Denisov as Evgeniy Evtushenko |
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Vladimir Mayzinger as editor |
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Ramazan Akhmedov as Andrey |
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Irina Kolodyazhnaya as female doctor |
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Andrey Rogozhin as on-call doctor |
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Marina Saburova as ward roommate |
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Anzhelika Pechka as applicant 1 |
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Daniil Eydlin as teacher 1 |
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Olga Lebedeva as teacher 2 |
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Evgeniya Shevchenko as secretary of the commission |
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Irina Kasamara as Masha |
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Aleksandr Amelin as reporter |
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Anton Belov as customer |
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Anton Artemyev as Stepan |
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Tatyana Zhuravleva as party friend |
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Stepan Abramov as movie theater clerk |
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Said-Magomed Khasaev as guy |
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Valentina Lysenko as chairman of the commission |
| Production | Vyacheslav Murugov | Producer |
| Editing | Aleksandr Puzyrev | Editor |
| Editing | Aleksey Starchenko | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Darya Fomina | Costume Design |
| Art | Mariya Slavina | Production Design |
| Production | Mikhail Vrubel | Producer |
| Production | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Producer |
| Writing | Vasilisa Kuzmina | Screenplay |
| Camera | Mikhail Milashin | Director of Photography |
| Production | Denis Baglay | Producer |
| Production | Alexander Andryuschenko | Producer |
| Writing | Yuliya Gulyan | Screenplay |
| Production | Vadim Vereshchagin | Producer |
| Directing | Vasilisa Kuzmina | Director |
| Camera | Filipp Yuzhanin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Sound | Aleksey Kobzar | Sound Designer |
| Crew | Oleg Chemodurov | Stunt Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ekaterina Odintsova | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Ekaterina Malyutina | Casting Director |