PESSIMIST

 

director

Misha Holod

cast

Tatyana Tkach, Konstantin Telegin, Maria Hrushcheva, Maria Zimina 

producer

Pavel Frolov

production

Drama, 101 min, More Films, Russia, 2015

оriginal title PESSIMIST, language Russian 

 

synopsis

 

The young man – filmmaker Misha meets an elderly woman and her granddaughter. They become friends with the woman and lovers with the girl. The girl yearns to find herself, grandmother afraid of loneliness and aging. Misha begins to observe their relationships, and that inspires him. The two women become his muses and start the battle for Misha’s attention, because he is looking for inspiration for the new film. Grandmother and granddaughter love each other, but not able to understand each other. Misha tries to put them together if not in real life, but at least in his imagination.