Director - Mikhail Ugarov, Scriptwriter - Elena Gremina

The film is based on the motifs of the play of the same title. The script uses letters of Anton Chekhov and Alexander Chekhov, Alexander and Mikhail Chekhov's memoirs, Pavel Chekhov's diary, and also themes from Anton Chekhov's works "Ivanov", "Uncle Vanya", "The Seagull", "Three Years", "My Life", "A Joke", "The Duel". The film's plot is the story of success, the story of how a man, world famous writer Anton Chekhov, managed to break off with the family and find himself, his vocation. Chekhov is the master of description of unsuccessful families. The family he was born in and where he grew up seems to step down from the pages of his later stories. The family relationship were always painful, although the family members loved each other very much. The film will tell how Anton Chekhov faced his crucial choice - whether to devote himself totally to the family and to burry his outstanding gift as a writer; whether to take the responsibility for his relatives upon himself while he was constantly dreaming to quit all this or to get out of the family troubles and live his own way.

Russia, 106 min.

Scriptwriter – Helena Gremina

Director – Mikhail Ugarov

DOP – Alisher Hamidhodjaev

Production designer – Maria Utrobina

Music – Alexander Manackov

Editor – Boris Mnuhin

Cast – Egor Koreshkov, Artem Grigoriev, Alexander Molochnikov, Alexandra Rebenok, Yana Irteneva

Awards

2015 Best male role (Egor Koreshkov), Male Role FF, Penza (Russia)

2015 Best director of photography (Alisher Hamidhodjaev), Provincial Russia FF (Russia)

2015 Best male role (Egor Koreshkov), Provincial Russia FF (Russia)

2015 Best male role (Egor Koreshkov), Spirit Of Fire IFF (Russia)

2015 Young Jury Award, Festival of Russian art house films, Chelyabinsk (Russia)

2015 Award from the jury of the creative intelligentsia, Festival of Russian art house films, Chelyabinsk (Russia)

2014 Best director (Mikhail Ugarov), East-West IFF, Orenburg (Russia)

2014 Best male role (Artem Grigoriev), East-West IFF, Orenburg (Russia)

2014 Best scriptwriter (Helena Gremina), Amur Autumn FF (Russia)

2014 Best male role (Egor Koreshkov), Amur Autumn FF (Russia)

2014 Audience prize, Mirror IFF (Russia)

2014 Variety award for best director of photography (Alisher Hamidhodjaev), Mirror IFF (Russia)

2014 Special award from Sberbank, Mirror IFF (Russia)

Festivals

2016 Bosphorus IFF (Turkey) 2016 – On The Edge IFF, Sakhalin (Russia)

2015 Male Role FF, Penza (Russia)

2015 Festival of Russian Cinema in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

2015 Volna Festival of Russian Cinema, Alicante (Spain)

2015 Festival of Russian Cinema in Mongolia

2015 Openspace short film IF (Latvia)

2015 Provincial Russia FF (Russia)

2015 Saint Anna FF (Russia)

2015 Literature and Cinema FF (Russia)

2015 Festival of Russian Cinema in Helsinki (Finland)

2015 Spirit Of Fire IFF (Russia)

2015 Festival Russian art house films, Chelyabinsk (Russia)

2014 Festival of festivals (Russia)

2014 Bereginya FF, Arkhangelsk (Russia)

2014 Kinoproba FF, Yekaterinburg (Russia)

2014 Festival of Russian Cinema in Toronto (Canada)

2014 Kulturus Festival, Prague (Czech Republic )

2014 East-West IFF, Orenburg (Russia)

2014 Kinoshok FF, Anapa (Russia)

2014 Pacific Meridians IFF (Russia)

2014 Amur Autumn FF (Russia)

2014 Moscow Premiere FF (Russia)

2014 Festival of Russian Cinema, Vyborg (Russia)

2014 Mirror IFF (Russia)