Alina Yklymova

IN POST-PRODUCTION

Original title: Matröshki
Fiction | Tragicomedy | 105 min.
Germany
Languages: Russian, German, English
Production: Schiwago Film GmbH

Crew

Screenplay: Alina Yklymova & Lion Durst
Director: Alina Yklymova
Cinematography: Sina Diehl
Costume Design: Stephanie Zurstegge
Production Design: Mareike Rückert

Music: Sophia Sämann & Torsten Brandes
Editing: Lucas Cantera & Marco Rottig

Commissioning Editors: Jan Berning & Stefanie Groß (SWR),

Andrea Hanke (WDR), Erin Högerle (HR)

Funded by: MFG Baden-Württemberg, HessenFilm,

Supported by: YTF Berlin
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Simon Grohe, Marcos Kantis

Creative Producers: Sophia Moussavi-Stier
Producer: Priska Kraft, Tim Peters

Cast (selected): Jana Lissovskaia, Varvara Shmykova, Adina Maaß, Eva Maria Oganyesyan, Sascha Alexander Geršak, Anne Ratte-Polle, Valery Tscheplanowa, Irina Platon, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling, Barbara Colceriu

In southern Germany, a young Russian exile who fled Moscow after a political protest finds her life controlled by her Soviet-nostalgic mother, who arranges a sham marriage for survival, fracturing a three-generation family of women caught between freedom and security, while a child watches a world she has no place in.