Natalya Kudryashova Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Natalya Kudryashova
Directing
Biography
Natalya Aleksandrovna Kudryashova (Russian: Наталья Александровна Кудряшова; born 12 October, 1978; Nizhny Novgorod) is a Russian actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. Winner of the Diploma for the Best Debut of the Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" for directing the film "Pioneers-Heroes" (2015) and the Best Actrees Prize for her role in the film "The Man Who Surprised Everyone" (2018) in the Horizons Competition of the 75th Venice Film Festival.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Lisa's Morning
Lonely Lisa lives in a big city. She believes in a miracle and goes to work. Her worthless life can change. We just need someone to notice it.
Vanka
Overweight Dasha works as a proof-reader for a glossy magazine. Commonsense and previous experience have taught her not to harbour any illusions concerning a happy private life. So instead, she finds solace in detective novels, television and cakes, which she consumes in large quantities. However, when two men appear almost simultaneously, her life is turned upside down. The first is Stas, her tall and handsome new neighbour. Dasha is smitten but is aware that he will never return her love. The other 'man' is Vanka, her eight-year old nephew, whom she has agreed to look after while his mother is away in a resort town looking for a looking to land herself a good catch. Living with Vanka is a lesson in survival. Unable to spend even an hour without performing a prank or joke, Vanka turns his aunt's home into a death trap, and Dasha is either chasing after him or dealing with the consequences.
Flegeton
One's way to Phlegethon - a river of boiling blood in seventh circle of Inferno, where murderers of different ages serve time.
Mistresses
Three young women living in Moscow found out that their partners are married to other women. Coping with this news at the bar, they decide to seek revenge for each other. When the job is done, it turns out that there are thousands of women caught in the same situation, hurt and cheated on by unfaithful husbands. All of these offended women want revenge. Our ladies can help with this.
Salyut-7
USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.
Shchelchok
Driven by trust and self-persuasion, one anesthesiologist sets out to find his missing brother and meets a stranger with unusual right hand.
Entertainment
Dismissed clown presents the unique amusement, which let people feel themselves powerful for low price.
Jane Not Sane
Sixteen-year-old Zhenya, whom everyone calls Tin, fully justifies her nickname - she is gesticulating and destroys relationships with everyone around her. She became such after she received a concussion and a leg injury. Now she limps and sees the world far from rosy. Zhenya blames his best (and now former) friend Prikhodka for his injury and directs all his anger and sparkling cynicism at him. But apart from Prikhodko, everyone gets it: parents, older brother, girlfriends and classmates. Everything changes when Zhenya meets the head of the robotics circle, Stanislav Karin, who becomes her mentor. Through interaction with robots, Zhenya learns to communicate with people, enjoys life, and most importantly, forgives and regains an old friend.
Kukushen
A single person decides to celebrate a birthday for the first time in his life. He turns forty years old. He wants a holiday, noise and fun, but he doesn't have any friends. He invites work colleagues, classmates, a neighbor, in fact, random people, as if only external attributes are needed for the holiday. There is no miracle happening, and the only person who is not having fun at a birthday party is the birthday boy himself.
Elephant Sandbox
In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.
Production
Obsessed
An attractive young coroner involves herself in a strange relationship with s.e.x, desires, and deaths. The phantasmagoria filled with gore, e.r.o.t.i.c, and mystery unfolds during the serial killer search. The viewer has to guess, who the main protagonist is, and what part is she playing - a victim, a killer, or a mere witness?
Trap
The gloomy huntsman Ivan and the timid Alexandra live together on the farm. A blow of fate cut off their love. Alexandra thinks about freedom. At any cost.
Anichkov Bridge
An ordinary day of an ordinary St. Petersburg guide: a smile on duty, the text bounces off the teeth, the route is scheduled by the minute – the main thing is that the bus with tourists is in time for lunch! It seemed that the life of the guide Marina finally turned into a series of identical, as if under a carbon copy, everyday life, gray as the asphalt of Nevsky Prospekt. And so it was, until the bus suddenly got stuck in traffic at the Anichkov Bridge, and Klodt's famous horses rebelled against Marina and her routine. What can you do, St. Petersburg is a city where miracles happen at every step. A guide can become a person, and the spirits of Nevsky Prospekt can breathe life even into an ordinary bus tour.
Lisa's Morning
Lonely Lisa lives in a big city. She believes in a miracle and goes to work. Her worthless life can change. We just need someone to notice it.
Lisa's Morning
Lonely Lisa lives in a big city. She believes in a miracle and goes to work. Her worthless life can change. We just need someone to notice it.
Lisa's Morning
Lonely Lisa lives in a big city. She believes in a miracle and goes to work. Her worthless life can change. We just need someone to notice it.
Lisa's Morning
Lonely Lisa lives in a big city. She believes in a miracle and goes to work. Her worthless life can change. We just need someone to notice it.
Anichkov Bridge
An ordinary day of an ordinary St. Petersburg guide: a smile on duty, the text bounces off the teeth, the route is scheduled by the minute – the main thing is that the bus with tourists is in time for lunch! It seemed that the life of the guide Marina finally turned into a series of identical, as if under a carbon copy, everyday life, gray as the asphalt of Nevsky Prospekt. And so it was, until the bus suddenly got stuck in traffic at the Anichkov Bridge, and Klodt's famous horses rebelled against Marina and her routine. What can you do, St. Petersburg is a city where miracles happen at every step. A guide can become a person, and the spirits of Nevsky Prospekt can breathe life even into an ordinary bus tour.
Gerda
During the day, Lera studies humankind and its needs through opinion polls, which are an educational practice at the institute; at night, she dances under the pseudonym Gerda in a club to support herself and her mother. The people she meets are as unfortunate as her family. Her father has recently left for another woman, but he constantly returns home, unable to make his choice and thereby making the life of close people intolerable. The mother painfully endures the breakup and constantly sleeps, ignoring reality. Lera doesn’t know how to carry on, where to go and what to live for, and — most importantly — how to improve life. The adult world, invariable unfortunate, which Lera observes day and night, seems hopeless.
Pioneer Heroes
Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take mortgages, build country houses. Just like everybody else. But their lives bring them neither happiness nor content. The feeling of "something's not right but I can't put my finger on it" underpins the lives of today's thirty-year-olds. Their childhood took place during the Soviet era, when kids dreamed of becoming heroes, believed in spy stories and a bright future. Yet nobody expected that the dream of becoming a hero would be replaced by the dream of stable and predictable existence. People have stopped dreaming of truly grand things. They just play their roles.
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