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 film
- 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
- Music
- 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
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 26th November 2008
