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She arrives on her first visit to Moscow from Warsaw. She likes everything – the May 9th Victory Parade, Tverskaya boulevard, the fighter jets tearing across the sky over the Kremlin, and the cozy yards – she meets Him in one of them.

  • Russia
  • 2009
  • Director: Ivan Vyrypaev
  • Director of photography: Fjodor Ljass / Fedor Lyass
  • Editor: Sergej Ivanov / Sergei Ivanov, Pavel Chanjutin / Pavel Khaniutin
  • Screenplay: Ivan Vyrypajev / Ivan Vyrypaev
  • Cast: Karolina Gruszka, Alexej Filimonov / Alexei Filimonov
  • Contacts: Studio Slon
  • Producer: Sabina Jeremejeva / Sabina Eremeeva
  • Production: Studio Slon


Ivan Vyrypaev

Ivan Vyrypaev (1974, Irkutsk) graduated from drama college in Irkutsk (1995) where, after working in Magadan, he was employed as a teacher (1999–2001) and established the drama studio Performance Space (1998). After studying direction in Moscow he worked at the Teatr.doc. Centre for New Drama, and was appointed Artistic Director of Praktika Theatre after 2005. He wrote five plays which were also staged outside his native country, and several screenplays, one of which he chose for his film debut Euphoria (2006), which earned him many awards both at home and abroad. He shot Oxygen (2009) based on his own dramatic work, and his play Valentine’s Day was adapted for the big screen by Svetlana Proskurina (The Best of Times, 2007). He is the author of the book Thirteen Texts Written in the Autumn (13 textov, napisannykh osenyu). He has won a number of theatre awards (Golden Mask) and the Presidential Council Prize for his contribution to Russian literature.