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 — win
- Kinotavr: Full-Length Film — nom; Prize of Presidential Council
- Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival: Starboy Award — nom
- Nika Award: Best Screenplay — win; Best Director, Best Actor — nom
- Artek Film Festival: Young Artist Awards — win