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Avdotya Smirnova

Avdotya Smirnova

Director, scriptwriter, writer, journalist. Prize-winner and participant of national and international film festivals, recipient of “Woman of the Year” title from GQ magazine. Born in Moscow, studied at the philological faculty of Moscow State University. Moved to Petersburg, directing the St Petersburg office of Kommersant Publishing House. Since 1993 has collaborated with Alexei Uchitel and authored scripts for his films “Giselle’s Mania”, “His Wife’s Diary”, “The Stroll”. She also wrote the script for “Gloss” by Andrei Konchalovsky, “$81⁄2” by Grigori Konstantinopolsky (co-authorship), and others. From 2002–2014 presented with Tatyana Tolstaya the talk show “School of Scandal”. In 2006 debuted as director with the film “The Relation” (prize for best debut at Kinotavr).

In 2012 founded the Vykhod Fund, which assists with the solution of problems of autism in Russia.

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Movies Made By Avdotya Smirnova (21)

Carpenter (2022)

The Osipovs are a very ordinary family from Ulyanovsk. Father, mother and son. They are no different from thousands and thousands of other families, except that they are happy. They love each other. The sudden illness of the son drives through them with an ...

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Pilik (2019)

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The Tolstoy Defence (2018)

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital's lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progr ...

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Petersburg: Selfie (2016)

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about ...

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Dog Walking (2016)

Vera should be surrounded by men, but for some reason she lives with a dog. He walks in the park with her, has lunch and falls asleep. But she is already in her thirties, and the search for the hero of her novel has entered a critical phase. She even fille ...

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Andrei Dolinin (2012)

The subject of this documentary short is Andrei Dolinin, a 56-year-old man with autism. ...

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Kokoko (2012)

A storry about a friendship between two very different women. ...

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Two Days (2011)

A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha. ...

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Fathers and Sons (2008)

The familiar generational conflict. The same age Arkady Kirsanov and Evgeny Bazarov are absolutely different in outlook people. While the former is more inclined to rely on the opinion of the older generation, the latter completely denies it. ...

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Railway Station (2008)

The 1970s. On May 9, a war veteran is going to a meeting with fellow soldiers. Before leaving, he has a difficult conversation with his son, a writer, who came with a little daughter to inform about the upcoming divorce. The father reproaches his son that ...

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Gloss (2007)

A pretty, young girl from a coal-mining town comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a supermodel in this satirical look at the fashion industry. ...

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The Connection (2006)

Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes t ...

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The Stroll (2003)

Today's twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country's post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole li ...

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His Wife's Diary (2000)

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. ...

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8 ½ $ (1999)

Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs ...

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Gisele's Mania (1995)

A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942. ...

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Butterfly (1993)

Roman Viktyuk is either hated or adored. But the eccentricity, the dissimilarity to everything of his work is recognized by everyone. The film by Alexei Uchitel - illustration for the life of the scandalous maestro. Unique shots from rehearsals, a trip to ...

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Last Hero (1992)

The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a musical prophecy of a talented artist about his own life. ...

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A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love (1990)

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on " ...

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Movies Starring Avdotya Smirnova (5)

Till Night Do Us Part (2012)

A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film produ ...

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Me Too (2012)

Five passengers - the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei's old father, the Musician, and a young woman - race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Belfry of Happiness which, according to hearsay, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg a ...

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Lessons at the End of Spring (1990)

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime ...

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Aquarium Fish of This World (1990)

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy. ...

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The Crossroad Of Rock (1988)

Documentary film written by music critic Artemiy Troitskiy. It depicts the variety of Soviet and Baltic rock music and offers its viewer an idea that all this forbidden music is not really dangerous for society. Featuring music bands: "Круиз" (Tambov ...

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