No Looking Back (2021 film)

No Looking Back
No Looking Back
Directed by	Kirill Sokolov
Written by	Kirill Sokolov
Produced by	Artem Vasilyev; Igor Mishin; Elena Geladze; Aleksey Grishin; Andrey Savelyev;
Starring	Sofya Krugova; Viktoriya Korotkova; Anna Mikhalkova;
Cinematography	Dmitry Ulyukaev
Edited by	Kirill Sokolov
Music by	Maksim Rudenko
Production; companies	SAGa Film Company; MetraFilms; Kinoprime Foundation; Ministry of Culture; Online-cinema KION; KinoPoisk;
Distributed by	PROvzglyad
Release dates	September 2021 (Kinotavr); April 21, 2022 (Russia);
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Box office	₽9 million

No Looking Back (Russian: Оторви и выбрось) is a 2021 Russian dark comedy crime film written and directed by Kirill Sokolov.^[3] The film tells about three aggressive women's quarrels - a little daughter, her mother, and her grandmother are pointing guns at each other. It stars Sofya Krugova, Viktoriya Korotkova, and Anna Mikhalkova.^[4]^[5]

No Looking Back was theatrically released in Russia on April 21, 2022, by PROvzglyad.^[6]

Plot

Olya was in prison for four years and decided to start a new life with the help of her daughter. But her daughter lives with her grandmother and she is not going to part with her granddaughter.^[7]

Cast

Sofya Krugova as Masha, a little daughter
Viktoriya Korotkova as Olya, a mother
Anna Mikhalkova as Vera, a grandmother
Aleksandr Yatsenko as Oleg
Olga Lapshina as a female prison warden
Vitaly Khaev as warden's husband
Daniil Steklov as warden's son
Igor Grabuzov as a traffic cop
Nikolay Schreiber as a truck driver

Production

A full-length feature directed by Kirill Sokolov after the 2019 black comedy Why Don't You Just Die! how a men's son kills his father. The producers of the film are Artem Vasilyev and Igor Mishin, as well as Andrey Savelyev. The film is being shot with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Kinoprime Foundation for the Development of Contemporary Cinematography, as well as with the participation of the SAGa Film Company.

Casting

This approach is due to the fact that the actress playing one of the main characters of the film, Sofya Krugova. Since the film was Sofya's debut acting work, the creators decided to shoot the comedy in chronological order according to the script, so that it would be easier for the girl to navigate.

Filming

Principal photography process was supposed to start back in May 2020, but due to the pandemic, it was postponed to early July. They will go to the city of Tver and Tver Oblast forest. At the very end, four shifts are planned in the backwater near the Volga River - in a remote and very picturesque place. A small interior block will be filmed in Moscow.

Release

Theatrical

The film premiered in September 2021 at the Kinotavr Film Festival.^[8]^[9] Critics note the originality of Kirill Sokolov's directing style.

References

^ ""Кинотавр-2021": Равшана Куркова, Ингеборга Дапкунайте, Светлана Устинова и другие на премьере фильма "Оторви и выбрось"". Spletnik. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
^ "M-Appeal Acquires Kirill Sokolov's 'No Looking Back' – Tallinn (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. October 21, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
^ "Режиссер фильма "Папа, сдохни" снял комедию "Оторви и выбрось". Смотрим трейлер!" [The director of the film Why Don't You Just Die! shot the dark comedy No Looking Back. Watching the trailer!]. Afisha (in Russian). December 20, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
^ "Your platform for thought-provoking cinema". DMovies. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
^ Lokhankin, Kozma (December 22, 2021). "Вышел трейлер комедии "Оторви и выбрось" от автора "Папа, сдохни"" [The trailer for the dark comedy No Looking Back from the author of Why Don't You Just Die! has been released]. Russian Gazette (in Russian). Retrieved December 22, 2021.
^ "Оторви и выбрось / No Looking Back (2021)". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).
^ "Зрители выбрали лучший фильм фестиваля "Кинотавр"" [The audience chose the best film of the Kinotavr Film Festival]. REGNUM News Agency (in Russian). September 26, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
^ Chesnokova, Ekaterina (September 25, 2021). "Снова якуты или капитан Волконогов? Кто победит на "Кинотавре"" [Yakuts again or Captain Volkonogov Escaped? Who will win the "Kinotavr"]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). Retrieved December 22, 2021.

External links

No Looking Back at IMDb

[1] ""Кинотавр-2021": Равшана Куркова, Ингеборга Дапкунайте, Светлана Устинова и другие на премьере фильма "Оторви и выбрось"". Spletnik. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[2] Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)

[3] "M-Appeal Acquires Kirill Sokolov's 'No Looking Back' – Tallinn (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. October 21, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.

[4] "Режиссер фильма "Папа, сдохни" снял комедию "Оторви и выбрось". Смотрим трейлер!" [The director of the film Why Don't You Just Die! shot the dark comedy No Looking Back. Watching the trailer!]. Afisha (in Russian). December 20, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.

[5] "Your platform for thought-provoking cinema". DMovies. Retrieved December 22, 2021.

[6] Lokhankin, Kozma (December 22, 2021). "Вышел трейлер комедии "Оторви и выбрось" от автора "Папа, сдохни"" [The trailer for the dark comedy No Looking Back from the author of Why Don't You Just Die! has been released]. Russian Gazette (in Russian). Retrieved December 22, 2021.

[7] "Оторви и выбрось / No Looking Back (2021)". www.kinoafisha.info (in Russian).

[8] "Зрители выбрали лучший фильм фестиваля "Кинотавр"" [The audience chose the best film of the Kinotavr Film Festival]. REGNUM News Agency (in Russian). September 26, 2021. Retrieved December 22, 2021.

[9] Chesnokova, Ekaterina (September 25, 2021). "Снова якуты или капитан Волконогов? Кто победит на "Кинотавре"" [Yakuts again or Captain Volkonogov Escaped? Who will win the "Kinotavr"]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). Retrieved December 22, 2021.

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