Director | Alexey Fedorchenko |
Scriptwriter | Alexey Fedorchenko |
Scriptwriter | Lidia Kanashova |
Producer | Alexey Fedorchenko |
Producer | Dmitry Vorobiev |
Cinematographer / DP | Artem Anisimov |
Art director | Alexey Maksimov |
Composer | Roman Tsypyshev |
Editor | Daria Ismagulova |
Sound Designer | Timofey Shestakov |
Georgiy Iobadze | |
Oleg Yagodin | |
Nikolay Kolyada | |
Alexey Romanov | |
Alexey Fedorchenko | |
Daria Ismagulova | |
Joël Chapron | |
Evgeniy Chistyakov | |
Lubov Vorozhcova | |
Aslsnbek Galaov |
Alexey Fedorchenko was born on September 29, 1966 in Sol-Iletsk, in the Orenburg region of Siberia. After engineering studies, he worked on space defense projects in a factory in Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg). In 1990, he became official economist then deputy director of the Sverdlovsk State Studio. Since 2000, he has managed the studio’s production department, and participated in the production of over 80 films. He has studied dramaturgy at the Russian National Film Institute, and written screenplays for documentaries that were awarded numerous prizes at festivals worldwide. Since 2004 Alexey Fedorchenko is a co-owner, film director and general producer of the "29th February Film Company". Alexey Fedorchenko currently lives and works in Ekaterinburg.
Relations between Russia and the Caucasus are the «Terra Incognita» in Russian cinema, a theme hidden behind the canons of politics and religions, buried under the stamps of wars and gang fights of the nineties of the twentieth century. I really want to understand the origins of these difficult relations, to see how Russia influenced the world of the Caucasus, and how the Caucasus changed Russia. We decided to go back two hundred years and see where it all started. We will talk about the wonderful paganism of the North Caucasus, about how the first imams of Dagestan and Chechnya, Gazi-Magomed and Shamil, waged a long-term war against the Empire, about the appearance of Sufi sheikhs in the Caucasus with ideas of Peace, and how these ideas influenced Russian society and even world philosophy. 1813-1913. A hundred years, which we know only from the works of Mikhail Lermontov and Leo Tolstoy. By the way, Lermontov and Tolstoy are also the heroes of our film. Just like Pushkin, Gogol, Dmitry Mendeleev, and even Alexander Dumas – the Caucasus attracted creative people from all over the world. All the scenes are based on real events, even the characters' speech is taken from historical scientific sources.