Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Pioneer Heroes

Natalya KUDRYASHOVA 2015 Russia Fiction color 115min Russian, English DCP
Pioneer Heroes is a story of the last generation of Pioneers of the USSR. Old school friends Olga, Katya and Andrey live in Moscow. Like all the provincials they arrived in the capital looking for happiness. Olga is an actress playing ugly series. Katya works in a big PR-agency. She's in love with a married man. Andrey is a political analyst. He's a hard worker who relaxes playing video games. As of today, they are rather successful people but they had quite another life once. Nobody knows that they had been dreaming of becoming heroes. It's 1987 and they are preparing to become young Pioneers...

Director

Natalya KUDRYASHOVA

KUDRYASHOVA was born in Nizhniy Novgorod in the Soviet Union in 1978. Graduated from the Nizhniy Novgorod Theatre School in 2000 and got a diploma as an actress. Graduated from the Director's Laboratory under the tutelage of Anatoliy VASSILIEV at the School of Dramatic Art in Moscow in 2006. She graduated from the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors as a feature film director in 2012.

Director's Statement ▾

Natalya KUDRYASHOVA
  • 2015《1987:小紅軍》Pioneer Heroes
  • 2012 Liza's Morning
  • 2011 The Freeze

Director & Screenwriter/ Natalya KUDRYASHOVA
Producer/ Sergey SELYANOV
Cinematographer/ Ruslan GERASIMENKOV
Editor/ Semyon GALPERIN
Cast/ Natalya KUDRYASHOVA, Daria MOROZ, Alexey MITIN,

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