Paratrooper Day is an eccentric musical comedy directed by Andrzej Petras , filmed by him in 2013. The film received a special prize from the jury of critics “Silver Snow Glasses” at the I Yakutsk International Film Festival , Prize for Creative Support named after Nikolai Ovsyannikov at the "Festival of Festivals", Prize for the best film of the program "Other Lands" at the VII Moscow Film Festival "Debut Cinema" and won the cycle contest of the film festival "Message to Man".
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| Genre | Musical Surreal Comedy |
| Producer | Andrzej Petras |
| Producer | Andrzej Petras |
| Author script | Andrzej Petras |
| In the main cast | Galina Mochalova Maxim Sergeev Alexander Bolshakov Vitaly Kulikov Natalia Iokhvidova |
| Composer | Andrzej Petras |
| Duration | 28 minutes |
| A country |  Russia |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 2013 |
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Content
Synopsis
The grotesque movie. The film tells the story of people who have lost themselves and prefer virtual life to real. The characters of the film revolve around such things as creating images of likeness to someone or something that inevitably moves them away from their own path and the embodiment of their desires.
The main character of the film is a touching and cheerful old lady, in whose life serious changes are coming: she is retiring. But she feels that she has not done everything in her life that she could. Grandma feels like a paratrooper, a fighter-saboteur who has not fulfilled his mission. And, surprisingly, the other characters in the film also feel the mysterious power of Grandma and experience awe. For twenty-eight minutes, the plot threads are woven into a tight knot and lead to an unexpected outcome.
Story
The film begins with the fact that in the early morning an elderly lady wakes up and begins to get ready for work. Today is her last working day, she is retiring. In a wonderful mood, the lady leaves the house: on the trunk of her bicycle there is a firmly tied birthday cake for colleagues, birds are singing. But along the way, she meets different characters who are clearly not happy to meet her. They hide, turn away from her in the hope that she will not recognize them, or naively find themselves overtaken by her. And all because her job is to scare people, this is her profession.
And so the main character comes to work, where she is given the task for her last working day. But the task was given not only to her, but also to people whose target she herself was. The climactic scene of the pursuit of an elderly lady leads to an unexpected end.
Creative and film crew
- Stage Director, Scriptwriter - Andrzej Petras
- Composer - Andrzej Petras
- Operators - Victor Zubarev, Alexander Zatona
- Sound producer - Denis Davydov
- Set Designer: Victor Drozdov
- Make-up artist - Darina Boykova
- Costume Designer - Asya Belova
- Technical Director - Borislav Fedusov
- Director of the picture - Alexandra Melnikova
- Producer - Andrzej Petras
Starring
- Grandmother - Galina Mochalova (Honored Artist of Russia, actress of the comedian’s theater)
- Paratrooper - Maxim Sergeyev (actor of the Comedians Theater)
- Senior Anti-Virus - Alexander Bolshakov (Honored Artist of Russia, actor of the Komissarzhevskaya Theater)
- Junior Anti-Virus - Vitaliy Kulikov (Golden Sofit Prize Laureate, actor of the Lensovet Theater and “Comedian Shelter”)
- The owner of the inventory issuing point is Natalya Iokhvidova
Prizes and awards of the film
- 2013 - I Yakutsk International Film Festival (Russia) - Critical Jury Special Prize “Silver Snow Glasses”
- 2013 - “Festival of festivals” (Russia) - Prize of creative support to them. Nikolay Ovsyannikov
- 2013 - “Message to the Man” (Russia) - Cycle competition of the film festival “Message to the Man”