The man who surprised everyone

The Siberian huntsman Egor is an exemplary family man and a respected person in his village. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Suddenly, Yegor discovers that he is terminally ill with cancer and he has only two months left to live. Neither traditional medicine nor shamanistic witchcraft helps in the fight against the disease. In this regard, Egor finally decides to take a desperate step - trying to completely change his personality, as the hero of the ancient Siberian epos did the legendary drake Zhamba, who deceived Death who came after him ^[1] .

• Yevgeny Tsyganov for the role of Yegor Korshunov was awarded the main prize "For Best Actor" at the 11th Russian Open Film Festival "Male Role" named after I. I. Mozzhukhin in Penza in December 2018 ^[2] .
• The Nika Award in 2019 to Evgeny Tsyganov for Best Actor and Yuri Kuznetsov for Best Supporting Actor.
• Prize for Best Actress Natalia Kudryashova as part of the Horizons program of the Venice Film Festival in 2018.
• International Cinema Award “East - West. Golden Arch ”for 2019 in three categories:“ Best Screenwriting ”( Natalya Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov),“ Best Actor ”( Evgeny Tsyganov ),“ Best Supporting Role ”(Natalya Kudryashova) ^[3] .

The film received positive ratings from film critics. Anton Dolin described the picture as follows: “Here is a realistic story, broken in half by an absurd assumption: these are more common in life than in cinema (and in art they remind of the same Gogol -“ Nose ”, for example). At the same time, it is almost a manifesto - but not social, but existential ” ^[1] . The deputy editor-in-chief of the Session magazine Vasily Stepanov noted in a review of the picture: “Let's just say this: this is a film about the changes that have to be made in order to survive and, in general, about the ability to accept the need for change, that sometimes fear can only give incentive to metamorphosis ” ^[4] .

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• (English) on the Internet Movie Database