“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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