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Who If Not Us
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Wikipedia article
'Who If Not Us' is a Russian drama film by actor and director Valeriy Priyomykhov.[https://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/5029/ , ? ] // Russia-K
Filming began in 1993, but due to lack of funding the film didn't appear on the screen for 5 years.[https://www.culture.ru/movies/3705/kto-esli-ne-my ]
Plot
Dreaming to get rich, teenagers Snakes and Tolya plunder the city's department store and as a result one find themselves in a colony, another in a lycee, which differs little from a colony. Having learned truly what solitude is, Snake accidentally gets acquainted with Gennady, an old man just like him, alone and difficult, dismissed from the police.
Cast
*Yevgeny Krainov as Snakes
*Artur Smolyaninov as Tolya
*Valeriy Priyomykhov as Gennady Samokhin
* Lyanka Gryu as Irochka
* Tatyana Dogileva as head of parent committee
* Albert Filozov as class teacher Anatoly Ignatievich
* Yekaterina Vasilyeva as mother at the parents' meeting
* Aleksei Panin as policeman
* Nikolai Chindyajkin as colony supervisor
* Ivan Okhlobystin as pathologist
* Nadezhda Markina as Tolya's mother
* Oleg Marusev as head teacher
* Tatyana Kravchenko as Samokhin's girlfriend
Awards and nominations
* Taormina Film Fest: Special Jury Prize (Valeriy Priyomykhov) win
* Kinotavr: Full-Length Film nom; Prize of Presidential Council (Valeriy Priemykhov)[https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/kto-esli-ne-my-1998-41276/awards/ , ] // KinoPoisk
* Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival: Starboy Award (Valeriy Priyomykhov) nom
* Nika Award: Best Screenplay (Valeriy Priyomykhov) win; Best Director (Valeriy Priyomykhov), Best Actor (Valeriy Priyomykhov) nom
* Artek Film Festival: Young Artist Awards (Artur Smolyaninov) win
References
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