Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets and some mystifying secret that keeps the audience in suspense. In the end, the mystery is resolved, forever uniting the story with the city. St. Petersburg has never been seen like this before. The city is not shown as a phantom, museum, specter or ruin. This is Petersburg on-line, a beautiful, busting city, in which young Russian Europeans live and suffer freely and easily.

On the 15th anniversary of the release of the film the director Alexey Uchitel is coming to New York to present this film to New York audience.

Director: Alexey Uchitel
Screenplay by Avdotya Smirnova
Starring: Irina Pegova, Pavel Barshak, Eugeny Tsyganov, Eugeny Grishkovets
12+
Length: 90 min
Genre: Melodrama
Awards:
International Film Festival Cottbus 2003: Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Artistic Solution,
FIPRESCI Prize, Boulder Prize
International Film Festival Cleveland 2003: Best Film
International Film Festival Syracuse 2003: Best Film
Window to Europe Film Festival 2003: Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Female Character
The National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia "Zolotoy Orel" 2003: Best
Actress, Nominee for Best Film, Best Photography, Best Screenplay, Best Actor in Supporting
Role
National Academy Awards Nika 2003: Nominee for Best Screenplay, Best Actor in Supporting
Role
XXV Moscow International Film Festival 2003: Competition Program, Russian Cinema Club
Federation Prize

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