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Wikipedia article
'About a Wife, a Dream and Another...' is a 2013 Russian language film written and directed by Alexander Pozhenskiy. The film has received positive reviews, and has also been well-received at various film festivals.
Plot
The film has two story-lines or "realities". The main characters are lovers, Maria and Vasin who discover they have access to an alternate reality wherein missed opportunities have become realities.
In the film's first act, subtitled "The Pilot", Maria finds that she is in love with Vasin again after rejecting his marriage proposal twenty years earlier, when he was a lieutenant in the Russian Air Force. Vasin also lives a life of regrets, and wishes he was able to pursue his unfulfilled dream of becoming a film director.
In the second act, "A Film Director", Maria is transported into a different reality. In this reality, she marries Vasin, and he becomes a film director. The plot questions whether they are truly happy with each other, despite having their wishes granted.
Cast
* Konstantin Yushkevich as Vasin
* Alexandra Kulikova as Maria
* Alexander Pozhenskiy as Anton
Production
Principal photography took only one month to complete, with an eighteen-day post-production period. It was filmed in Moscow and completed on May 9, 2013. The first screening took place at the RIA Novosti press-center on October 12, 2013. The film's age rating in Russia is 18+.
Distribution
Cinematic release
The official premiere took place in a 35mm cinema theater in Moscow on October 16, 2013. The premiere in St. Petersburg was on October 31, 2013. The film was available in theaters in eighteen Russian cities in the Cinema Park Cinema Theaters network and in 35mm Khudozhestvenniy, Rodina, Dom Kino, and Slava cinema theaters until November 28, 2013. In the 45th week of 2013, the film was number two on the Russian box office chart in the limited release category.Film festivals
The film has been featured at a number of film festivals. It opened the fourth Drugoe Kino film festival. On November 7, 2013, the film was shown at the 10th International Charitable Film Festival, Luch Angela in Moscow. The film was selected to be shown at the XXIInd St. Petersburg International Film Festival, Festival Festivaley, which was held on June 2329, 2014. The film was also included in the competitive program of the Arthouse Film Festival Kinolikbez-V, which took place in Barnaul from May 14 to 17, 2014.The film was accepted at the 14th International TV and Movies Forum competition, Vmeste, held on August 2228, 2014, in Yalta. It was also chosen to be included in the program for the sixth Strana National Award Ceremony, which took place from March 1719, 2015, during the Moscow Teleshow content market.
Online
The film was released via video on demand online services on December 3, 2013. Since January 1, 2014, it has been available online free of charge.It is a first of sorts in that it is the first Russian feature film on the Internet available in 4K resolution.
Television
The television premiere was on August 16, 2014, on the NTV Plus channel program 'Our New Films'. Since then, the film has been broadcast on the channel from time to time. On October 18, 2014, it was broadcast on TV1000 Russkoe Kino. On October 26, 2014, it appeared on Tricolor TV channel Nashe HD, and on February 7, 2015, it appeared on the Mir channel.Further reading
* 'Nina Tsirkun' [http://kinoart.ru/blogs/allo-garazh Hello, garazhe?] "Cinema Art
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