Natalya Kudryashova

Director

October 12, 1978 (47 years)

Nizhny Novgorod, USSR (Russia)

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

8.2

Pushkin's Fairy Tales. For Adults

In each episode, the action of Pushkin's fairy tales is transferred to our reality. The familiar Pushkin images will become even clearer: The Princess will turn out to be an instablogger, Elisha will be a rapper, and the Golden Cockerel will be a neural network.

5.1

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.

7.1

Petersburg: Selfie

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.

5.6

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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