original title:
Sasha
directed by:
cast:
Anya Patokina, Stepan Belozerov, Polina Fedina, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Margarita Tolstoganova, Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk, Alexandr Ryazantsev, Konstantin Shpakov, Nikolay Klyamchuk, Natalia Sapozhnikova, Anastasiya Volynskaya
screenplay:
Vladimir Bek, Anna Efimova
cinematography:
Anton Gromov
editing:
Sebastian Longariva, Ilya Malov
set design:
costume design:
Irina Rovbel
music:
producer:
production:
Mars Media Entertainment, Vega Film, Albolina Film, with the support of IDM Film Commission Südtirol
world sales:
country:
RussiaItaly
year:
2022
film run:
118'
format:
colour
festivals & awards:
Sasha, 15, moves in with her father, a stranger whom she hardly knows and has not seen for years. Neither he nor she is happy about this, but that’s the way it is. Protesting against the decision that adults made for her, she shaves her head, puts on her grandfather’s old leather jacket and runs away from home. As she looks like this, short-haired and lost, the local teenagers – Maxim and a girl nicknamed Mouse – mistake Sasha for a boy. That’s how the girl suddenly gets a chance to enter a new world of her peers, a fascinating and sometimes dangerous one. Sasha pretends to be a different person, unaware of how far this lie will take her.