Twilight portrait

Marina, a young wealthy attractive girl engaged in social work “for the soul”, once finds herself on the outskirts of Rostov ^[3] alone, without money, without a cell phone and with a broken heel. She was raped by the traffic police, and she decides to take revenge on one of the rapists, returning to the place of her humiliation time after time. Having tracked down the offender, she falls in love with him and falls in love with herself.

• This is the first film of Angelina Nikonova . She lives in the USA, but made her film in the long-abandoned Rostov , where she came from.
• The male actor Sergey Borisov, who plays a rapist policeman, is actually not an actor, but a policeman (policeman).

“Twilight Portrait” is a micro-budget film shot in Rostov-on-Don with 2 Canon EOS 5D Mark II cameras ^[5] in 29 days ^[6] with a production budget of $ 20 thousand ^[7] .

• Olga Dykhovichnaya - Marina
• Sergey Borisov - rapist policeman
• Roman Merinov
• Vsevolod Voronov
• Sergey Golyudov
• Julia Koren - Lera
• Galina Root
• Boris Vernigorov
• Nikolai Khanzharov

• 2011 - Kinotavr - “for the best camera work” ^{[4] [8]}
• 2011 - Reykjavik International Film Festival - Grand Prix ^[3]
• 2011 - Warsaw Film Festival - “for the best debut” ^[2]
• 2011 - International Film Festival of Central and Eastern Europe Films in Cottbus - Grand Prix
• 2011 - Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Grand Prix and prize for the best film from Greek film critics
• 2011 - International Film Festival "East-West" in Orenburg - "for the best female role"
• 2012 - European Film Academy Award - FIPRESCI Prize nomination

• Russia - June 2011 ( Kinotavr ); October 4, 2011 ("Autumn Euphoria") ^[3] ; October 2011 ("2morrow / Tomorrow") ^[3] ; November 10, 2011 (wide screen in forty cinemas ^[3] )
• Italy - September 2, 2011 ("Venetian Days" at the Venice Film Festival )
• Canada - September 9, 2011 ( Toronto Film Festival )
• Iceland - September 22, 2011 ( Reykjavik International Film Festival )
• Poland - October 13, 2011 ( Warsaw Film Festival )
• Norway - October 21, 2011 ( International Film Festival in Bergen )
• UK - October 24, 2011 ( London Film Festival )
• Greece - November 11, 2011 ( Thessaloniki International Film Festival )
• Sweden - November 17, 2011 ( Stockholm International Film Festival )
• France - January 11, 2012 ^[3]

The newspaper "My District" publishes a review by writer D. Olshansky about the film, which notes that the main character’s behavior is a classic example of a hysterical woman’s relationship with the master: “on the one hand, she shares the patriarchal conventions, on the other hand, despises them. She submits to men, but each time she discovers that he is weak, slobbery or impotent ... she does not take anything perverse, but tries to get real feelings from a man, the truth of being ” ^[10] .

• Movie review at news.tut.by , November 10, 2011
• Analysis of the film on the website ria.ru , November 11, 2011
• Alex Tarn Portrait of the intelligentsia at dusk
• Twilight Portrait. Made in Rostov! Online rostovnews.net , April 7, 2012