Project Detail

Season of Mists

Synopsis

Marina is a forty-something Russian woman living in a small village in South Leicestershire, England. Seven years ago she married Gregory, a village garage owner, collector of Morris Minor cars and Ipswich Town supporter. They met when Gregory went to seem them play against Torpedo Moscow. Marina moved to England with her five year old daughter in the hope of happiness and a secure future for her child.

A journalist and a writer in her previous life, she now works as a local hairdresser and in her spare time writes for the parish magazine. Gregory loves her, and her daughter seems to flourish in a private school, but Marina isn't satisfied with her life, but can't really explain why.

The feeling increases when she meets Valentina, an old friend from Moscow. She is a successful writer and Marina asks herself whether maybe she could also write books in Russian, her native language which nobody seems to need in England.

A chance encounter with a touring string quartet from Moscow throws her out of her daily routine, and unexpected love opens up all the questions which Marina has been hiding deep inside.

It's a story about love and about people who are moving from place to place in search of home, but can't find it anywhere. It's also a story about middle age - the age when one has already (or not) achieved something in life, but when there is still time to start everything anew. And it's a story about a Standing Stone on the outskirts of a small English village where, some of the villagers believe, aliens might land one day.

For this film, Marina Blake won Best Actress at Kinoshock 2008. In addition, the film won awards for Outstanding Achievement, with particular reference to direction, screenplay and cinematography, and for Best Actress, at the Faithful Heart Film Festival, Moscow, in October 2008.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 minutes
Format: 35mm
Director: Anna Tchernakova
Producer: Mikhail Gagarin, Elena Badamiants, Olga Kennedy, Anna Tchernakova, Petr Chernyaev
Co-Producer: Mikhail Gagarin, Elena Badamiants, Olga Kennedy, Anna Tchernakova, Petr Chernyaev
Editor: Marat Magambetov
Screenwriter: Anna Tchernakova, Evgenia Tirdatova
Director of Photography: Dmitry Ermakov
Production Designer: Damien Creagh, Vladislav Jorov
Sound: Ray Hill, Sergey Ovcharenko
Composer: Gavin Bryars
Principal cast: Marina Blake, Ifan Huw Dafydd, Sergey Chonishvili, Dudley Sutton, Larissa Panchenko, Alexandra Maria Tchernakova, Yuri Nifontov, Heather Chasen, Eve Pearce, Janet Henfrey, Alexander Miakushko, Alexander Rezalin, Barry Shannon, Chris Jury, Lawrence Owen, Nina Veselovskaya, Daya Smirnova, Rayyan Anwar
Editorial Consultant: Vladimir Fenchenko
Cameraman: Nikolay Podzemelny
Focus puller, Camera Assistant: Igor Morin
Production Managers: Jessica Dunlop, Stephen Evans,
Costume Designer: Elena Brunkovskaya
Make-up artist: Monika Tovari
1st ADs: Tiziano Niero, Alexandra Kamyshova
3rd AD/Translators: Olga Borissova, Milly Cundall
Script Supervisor: Elena Sanz
Grips: Malcolm Huse, Emma Wild
Grip trainee: Ben Cozens
Gaffer: Johann Cruickshank
Sparks: Paulo Fernandes, Duncan Riedl
Clapper Loader: Alexandra Davis
Art Dept: Sarah Littlemore, Elliot Day
Boom Ops: Grant Bridgeman, Sam Pullen, Valerio Cerine

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Kinoglaz

Krasnopresnenskaya 112 Apt 129
Moscow 123100
Russia

T/F +7 495 605 06 58

kinoglaz@aha.ru

McCartney Media

99 Ifield Road
London SW10 9AS
UK

T/F +44 (0)20 7370 1563

neil.mccartney@mccartneymedia.co.uk

Zaleski Enterprises

PO Box 6353
Billesdon
Leicestershire LE79YH
UK

T +44 (0)116 2596431

anna@gbproductions.org.uk

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