Inner Fire
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NOMINEE - BEST PICTURE
2019
Russia / UK
97 mins
Russian
World Premiere
Feature Film Competition
| Misha Mareskin | |
| Evgeny Tarlo | |
| Andrey Panin, Mikhail Pavlik, Sofia Sinitsina | |
| Explicit Sexual Situations; Graphic Violence; Drug Use; Discussion or Depiction of Rape |
In the luxuriously apportioned St Petersburg apartment of a former drug lord, four strangers meet. The man of the house is running late, and there is nothing left for the four to do but sit and talk. One has come to ask for money, another for a weapon, the third for blackmail, and the fourth to kill the third. One word leads to another and what first starts out as a harmless conversation between the waiting strangers becomes a series of taunts and insults at the expense of the weakest of them. This escalates into what threatens to be a bloody massacre and then… mystical encounters with the Inevitable.
About the Director
Misha Mareskin was born in Nizhy Novgorod, Russia. In 2003, he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School specializing in Theatrical Drama Acting. In 2008, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Film and Television University, specializing as a director of drama film. In 2011, he completed a graduate degree in the St. Petersburg State Film and Television University in Art Criticism.
Reviews
Inner Fire: The Edgy Fantasy of New Russian Cinema – Michael Piantini, Winter Film Awards
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