Director: Slava Ross

Englisht title:  Siberia. Monamour
Original title:  Сибирь. Монамур

2011/ Russia/ 35mm/ 105’/ Fiction/ Colour

CREDITS:
Script:  Slava Ross; Photography:  Yury Rayskiy;  Editing:  Igor Litoninskiy;   Music:  Aydar Gaynullin;  Sound:  Arseniy Troitskiy; Leading actors:    Petr Zaichenko, Misha Protsko, Nikolay Kozak; Producer:   Pavel Skurikhin

Synopsis:
Siberia. In taiga, in an abandoned village an old man & his grandson wait for the boy’s father, who will never come back. A man & his wife raise three daughters, and that is the only thing that still ties them. A captain, who’s passed through two Caucasian wars, tries to find his place in peace life. The fates of these heroes interlace unexpectedly & dramatically. They need to make their choice again & again, uncovering inward humanity & compassion, that had been forgotten long ago.

Filmography:
He was a lead actor in the Novosibirsk Red Torch theatre in 1989-1996. Then he entered Russian State Institute of Cinematography, directing faculty. Slava has made his first student short film Meat in 2002. The film has won over 30 awards including several grand prizes. SELECT (the center of film & TV schools communications under UNESCO) has included Meat into the international program of studying cinema as a school supplies. In 2003 Slava founded a film company ‘Tundra Film’, which has produced his first feature filma sad comedy Fat Stupid Rabbit. Siberia. Monamour is his second full-length film, the result of ten-years work, also produced by Tundra Film.