Who If Not Us

Who If Not Us () is a Russian drama film by actor and director Valeriy Priyomykhov.

Filming began in 1993, but due to lack of funding the film didn't appear on the screen for 5 years.

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)
• 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

External links

• Кто, если не мы on Mosfilm