Odessa (film by Valery Todorovsky, 2019)
The story of one family against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the 1970 in Odessa. The city was quarantined due to a cholera outbreak. The multimillion-dollar city ended up on a reservation.
At the center of the story are three generations of the Davydov family. Every family has its own secrets, old grievances, unspoken words. A lovely Odessa courtyard will become the scene of a real family drama, but it will be resolved with that real irony that is so characteristic of this city. Mortal danger forces the heroes to recognize their true selves, to commit actions that they did not dare to do in their ordinary lives.
Cast: Evgeny Tsyganov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Evgenia Brik, Irina Rozanova, Ksenia Rappoport, Veronika Ustimova, Stepan Sereda, Sergey Sosnovsky, Sergey Muravyov, Vladimir Koshevoy, Nikita Tabunshchik
Director: Valery Todorovsky
Writers: Maxim Belozer, Dmitry Ivanov
Operator: Roman Vasyanov
Composer: Anna Drubich
Film premiere: September 5 , 2019
This film practically tells the story of my childhood. 70% of the characters are my real relatives, the film is about them. I was born in Odessa, I remember well the 1970s , the epidemic, when people suddenly realized that they were not just mortal, but, as the classic said, “suddenly mortal.” I saved up all these childhood impressions for many years and at some point I realized that I wanted to make a film about it.
Valery Todorovsky
Veronica played the role of Irka, the daughter of the Zhoriks, neighbors of the Davydov family. For Veronica, “Odessa” was her first acting job in a feature film. Filming took place from August to October 2018 . More than half of the action was filmed in the courtyard at Mosfilm. City streets were filmed in Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don, and a fragment with isolation on a ship was filmed in Sochi.
