Chekhovshchina / Чеховщина

Credits

Director Anastasia Zhura
Scriptwriter Anastasia Zhura
Producer Anastasia Zhura
Producer Maxim Rusiayev
Producer Tatiana Zhuravleva
Producer Ludmila Yatcheni
Cinematographer / DP Anton Burmaga
Art director Anastasia Zhura
Composer Alexander Prusov
Editor Oleg Yakovenko
Editor Andrey Vasilyev
Sound Designer Evgeniy Zaharov

cast

Tatiana Zhuravleva
Olesya Zheleznyak
Ivan Nepomnyashiy
Sofia Grigorieva-Aleksandrova

Anastasia Zhura

Director

Biography

The tumbleweed of an officer's family swept through cities from Belogorsk in the Amur Region to the German Zerbst, lay around in the unrecognized Transnistria, and put down roots in Moscow. The geographic trajectory was repeated in her career. Television, publishing, business startups... She needed diplomas from Lomonosov Moscow State University and Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy to decide to go to VGIK Gerasimov. Anastasia Zhura is a film and theater director, screenwriter, teacher, editor. Winner of Russian and international film festivals.

Filmography

2017 - short film Blindsight 2019 - short film Shashel

Directors Statement

"Chekhov was also a doctor!" - my mother, a surgeon, tried to convince me to go to medical school, playing her trump card. Chekhov was adored in our family. We read him aloud under the light of an oil lamp when the city's electricity was cut off. In roles, when we wanted to have fun. In the kitchen at night, when we couldn't fall asleep. Now I read him with my students and to my daughter. "Nobody wants to love the ordinary person in us" - does this resonate with you? Three short stories - three genres. With respect to Anton Pavlovich!