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The Mole

2006

Once there lived a guy in a silicon burrow...

Distributed by HHG Film Company
Production companies: KIN-Film, St. Petersburg State Cinema and TV University

Comedy/romance/fantasy, 25 min 30 sec, Color, miniDV

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Actors

  • Aleksandr Alyoshkin
  • Linda Lazareva
  • Yuriy Oskin
  • Smilain Ezhusht
  • Voices Nikolay Letunovsky, Igor Nurislamov, Leonid Plyaskin, Ilya Severov, Evgenia Sivtseva

Crew

  • Directed by Igor Nurislamov
  • Written by Platon Martynov, Igor Nurislamov
  • Produced by Maksim Nikolaev
  • Director of photography Alexander Stolpakov
  • Sound director Aleksei Burdinov
  • Production designer Sergei Lavaur
  • Costume designer Maria Yakovleva
  • Make-up artist Ekaterina Pikuleva
  • Animator Olesya Shchukina

Plot

The Mole is a hermit programmer who has no friends and no girlfriend. His only interlocutor is Reverie, an AI fairy. The Mole lives in an old house which is to be demolished soon, spending days and nights in a chat with Reverie, interrupted only by blackouts. Until Sveta, a girl made of flesh and blood, moves to an apartment next door and decides to get The Mole back to normal life.

Accolades

  • Diploma
    “City: Fates and Time” World Outlook Film Festival, Moscow (2008)
  • Diploma “For Finding An Unconventional Approach to Solving a Serious Social Problem”
    KinoConnect Film Contest (Corbina TV), Moscow (2007)
  • Best Sound Directing
    Beginning Film Festival, Saint Petersburg (2006)
    Aleksei Burdinov
  • Diploma
    White Nights Festival, Saint Petersburg (2006)
    Igor Nurislamov
  • Best Sound
    Peterkit Festival, Saint Petersburg (2006)
    Aleksei Burdinov