2000

Tatyana (Mariya Mironova) tired of the glamour capital life comes back to her native urban village Lypki in Tulskaya region in order to marry her first love Misha (Marat Basharov). Misha like everyone here is a miner short of money due to the occasional salary payments, but the wedding has to be celebrated. The needed money will be digged up. And here starts unimaginable – the real Russian wedding in the village. It is quite an eyeful show!

“The Wedding” was awarded by the special prize of the Cannes Film Festival for the best cast. And rather objectively, I have to say. Just look at the bridegroom`s friend Garkusha performed by Andrey Panin. Marvellous work! The same honest view of Russian province I`ve seen only in film “The Four”. But unlike the spiteful satire by Ilya Hrzhanovsky Lungin`s laugh at the village contains also love and soul. Lungin could be called a real Russian Kusturica!

Directed by:

Pavel Lungin

Cast:

Marat Basharov, Mariya Mironova, Andrey Panin, Alexander Semchev, Vladimir Simonov, Mariya Golubkina, Natalya Kolyakanova, Yelena Novikova, Vladimir Kashpur

Production:

arte France Cinéma, Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), Ciné B, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Mosfilm, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Germany - Russia - France, 2000

Feature:

Comedy

Duration:

114 min.