“GUN- Manizha” by Lado Kvataniya

Neighbors whose homes are divided by a concrete wall engage in a daily battle for extra square footage, pushing against the wall to gain an advantage. Like a heavy press, the concrete fence squeezes one side or the other, leading to inevitable victims. One day, a little girl makes a hole in the wall and a hole in the wall and finds an endless tunnel connecting similar rooms inside the wall.

FROM THE DIRECTOR

“The song was written by Manizha 10 years ago and was dedicated to the Civil war in Tajikistan in 1994. A shell destroyed her home, and her family was compelled to leave. The director, Lado Kvataniya, has a similar experience. In 1992, during the Georgian-Abkhaz war, one of the bloodiest conflicts in the former USSR, broke out. This tragedy forced Lado’s family to flee their home in Abkhazia.
In 2022, at the rise of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Manizha resumed working on the song. While this work was proceeding - the 7th of October happened, followed by Gaza. It seems like we didn't choose this time, but the time has chosen when this work needed to appear. Even this short timeline of the song’s life shows us just how overwhelmed with conflicts our planet is: there are 110 of them as of now and more seem to come.
The world is fucked up and it feels like there’s no way to change it so the only way we’re gonna change anything is to look at the children - they know better than us. Let’s learn from children how to connect and not teach them how to divide.

We owe them PEACE.”

-Lado Kvataniya.

Credits

Written and Directed by Lado Kvataniya/ @ladokvataniya

Artist// Manizha/ @manizha

Director of Photography// Vladimir Ushakov/ @ushakov.dp

Produced by EVERSINCE/ @eversince.gmbh , STEREOTACTIC/ @stereostatic , DADDY'S FILM/ @daddys.film   

Producers// Pavel Karykhalin, Alexander Medvedko, Egor Solomatin,

Nadin Usmanova, Lado Kvataniya

Executive Producer// Tatyana Patrenina

1AD// KATOK

2AD// Polina Vatman

Unit Production Manager// Inshootwetrust

Producer Assistants// Nazar Kaseev, Jenya Kuptsova

Production Designer// Alexey Yandovskiy

Production Designer Assistant// Maria Gracheva

Props Master// Denis Egorov

Props On Set// Gosha Osin, Aleksandr Remizov, Ilya Makarov, Vladimir Makhukov

Construction Coordinator// Sergei Burmistrov

Art Department Best Guys// Daniil Burmistrov, Maxim Perfilov, Andrey Korolkov, Nikolay Nekrasov,

Pavel Kirichenko, Ruslan Vaguro, Nikolay Metelenko, Ivan Stepanov, Dmitry Burmistrov

Set Construction (SmartSet)// Ilia Ziumkin, Alexey Kondratyev

Set Construction Manager// Sergey Ivanov

Painters// Maria Isakova, Ivan Glushak, Alyona Korobkova, Arina Belyakova

3D Visualizer And Sketcher// Iliana Borisova

Sound Design// Liz Horsman

Sound Mixer// Mike Spencer

Song is written by Liz Horsman, George Kruglov, Manizha Sanghin

Produced and mixed by Mike Spencer

Costume Designer// Anna Kudevich, Boris Kukolkin

Assistant Costume Designer// Boris Volkov, Ines Koleskina, Violetta Frolenkova, Alexandra Vorobyova

Make Up Artist// Igor Boiko/ @boiko_igorchik

Make Up Assistants// Darya Boyko, Mariia Maiorova, Elena Dementyeva, Mariia Briunina

Casting// Margarita Sayapina, Uliana Evdokimova

Casting Assistants// Svetlana Pakeyeva, Irina Kuzmina

CAST

Stepan Shevyakov, Alina Viktorova, Anastasiia Garmaeva, Anna Yudakova, Antonina Medvedeva, Arslan Kopush, Badma Budaev, Boris, Chingiz Turabaev, Denis Glod, Eva Zenina, Gabriel Oganyan, Guzal' Mambetova, Irina Belysheva, Julia Bashorina, Kim, Kristina Yurasova, Valeria Li, Lilit Karapetyan, Linz Camara, Liona Kryvenets, Makar Dubkov, Makar Saloyan, Milana Nazir, Milana Oganova, Paulina Pakeyeva, Raudas Taxma, Samual Ofori, Sergey Nabirukhin, Sharuif Abdelkrim, Subkhoniddin Razykov, Tim Solo, Timothy Oghidi, Usuf Ozturk, Veniamin Kolobov, Viktor Bodunov, Violetta Nersesyan, Vladimir Kasumovich, Vladimir Kopush, Vyacheslav Yurovskikh, Yuri Tarasov, Olivia Kvataniya

Choreographer// Alexandr Tronov

Second Unit Cinematographer// Alexander Matukhno

Sound Engineer on set// Eduard Eduard

Storyboard// Anton Smolkin

Post Production Producer// Ivan Malkov

Editor// Kirill Khandurin/ @khaki.editing.

Technical Editor// Grigorii Nikitin

Lettering and Title Design// Vladimir Ayuev

Motion Design and Cleanup// Ulyana Burykina

Visual Effects by CGF HQ

VFX Supervisor// Pavel Bezborodov

VFX Producer// Ekaterina Averina

Сompositing Supervisor// Roman Malyakov

Compositing Artists// Nikita Boldirev, Zhargal Darmaev, Alexey Volynets, Artem Chernykh, Kurban Ismailov

Matte Painting Artist// Sergei Isaenko

In/out | Stanislav Privato

CFO// Elena Kuzmina

Art Direction// Igor Klepnev

Poster Design// Sagimay Tolegen

BTS Photographer// Dasha Pocherk,Alexander Matukhno, Boris Kukolkin

Super 8 BTS Cinematographer// Vlad Netkachev

Presentation Design// Anna Lutkova

Special thanks to YourRental, Andrei Gubaidullin, Voskhod For Peace, Evgeny Kadomsky, Sher Khamraev,

Svyatoslav Kozin, Egor Shabanov, Munisa Usmanova, Todzhi Usmanov, Olivia Kvataniya


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