Actres / Attrice

Credits

cast

Anna Makhnyuk

Director
10/16/1987

Biography

Born in Rostov-on-Don in an ordinary family of engineers. Since childhood she's always been fond of theater, and since being 5 years old she worked as an actress. While all the children were walking in the park at the New Year's holidays she worked at the first New Year party at 8 am and worked until 8 pm. She had three New Year parties a day.The first salary was spent on a huge box with lollipops. Later entered a local university to study for economist, graduated from it and moved to Moscow to work by profession. But she's always dreamt of continuing her way in the world of theater and cinema. At one moment she left everything and decided to go to America to study at the American Academy of Drama Art (AADA). Then later she entered the Drama School of German Sidakov. And now she continues the director's studying in Italy. As she believes that in this profession one needs to get different experiences around the world.

Directors Statement

I have been living in Italy for 5 years. The emigration problem is very relevant over here, everyone speaks up on this subject and sometimes they turn out to be very aggressive and unambiguous. This film is based on a real story that happened at my sight. When a man saying that he had lost his loved ones because of the war and left the country later insists that the immigrants should not be welcomed at Italian ports, I was deeply impressed. I started wondering how such contradictions can be set in one person. I was thinking it over for a long time and in the end the idea of ​​this film was born. While working on the film, I came thinking that the main theme of this film is not immigrants and the crisis caused by this problem. But the problem of the duality of human nature. Everyone at the certain live point reveals himself in such a way. This trait can be seen both at the personal level and the peoples on the whole. We forbid our children to play with the phone while we can't leave it for a second. We teach the whole world democracy and tolerance while dropping bombs for better comprehension. Such examples are numerous, each of us have them. I wanted to highlight this duality and make people think how inconsistently we sometimes demonstrate ourselves.