MAHATMA HAFFKINE

DIRECTORS ANNA EVTUSHENKO, GALINA EVTUSHENKO
Script ANNA EVTUSHENKO, GALINA EVTUSHENKO

Camera SÁNDOR BERKESI, VLADIMIR SAMORODOV,
VIKTOR DOBRONITSKY

Featuring LEV PECHENKO, SERGEY FEDOTOV

Producer GALINA EVTUSHENKO

Production ROZA FILM STUDIO

Sales contact: ROZA FILM STUDIO

galka7@yandex.ru
Russia, 2022, 95’
4 October 17:00, Saturn IMAX #1
The protagonist of the film is Vladimir Haffkine, the creator of the vaccine against plague and cholera. In 1892, Anton Chekhov called him “the most unknown man in Russia”. In India, where the scientist saved lives of more than 33 million people, he was called Mahatma, that means “great soul”. The action of the film about the difficult path of the bacteriologist takes place in Russia, Ukraine, France, England, India.

ANNA EVTUSHENKO

Born in Voronezh. Graduated from Russian State Humanitarian University. Together with G.Evtushenko she made documentaries “Alexander Galin. Man-Orchestra” (2012) and “Leo Tolstoy and Dziga Vertov: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Age” (2015), director of “The Hall” (2013) and “Dodik” (2014).

GALINA EVTUSHENKO

Born in Voronezh. Graduated from the Voronezh State University, VGIK and the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters & Film Directors. Director and producer of non-fiction films, teacher. Winner of the Golden Eagle Award. Her filmography includes “Leaders” (1997), “Eisenstein and Meyerhold: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Age” (2003), “Erdman and Stepanova: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Age” (2006), “A Substation” (2007), “New Times, or Real Estate Exchange” (2008), “Mikhail Ulyanov. About Time and Himself” (2011), etc.