Title : Thirteen Months
Genre : drama, crimeDirector : Ilya Noyabrev
Actors : Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeny Grishkovets, Vladimir Shevelkov, Maria Mironova, Svetlana Nemolyayeva
Country : Ukraine
Year : 2008
Budget : $ 2.0 million
A successful businessman, Gleb Ryazanov, suddenly realizes that he spent the best years trying to become a "necessary frame". Even his family life is nothing but a bargain. In a desperate attempt to start life from scratch, Gleb leaves home, falling into the dizzying world of mysticism and crime, friendship and love. But it's not easy to get out of the vicious circle ... "Thirteen months" is an ironic and sometimes lyrical criminal drama, tells us that it's much more difficult to escape from problems and obligations than it seems ...
The well-known showman and TV host Ilya Noyabrev, departing from the affairs of television, made his debut on the script and director's field. The result is in the title.
Successful forty-year-old businessman Gleb Ryazanov (Gosha Kutsenko), as was supposed to be a thinking man of his age from classical literature, entangled in clear everyday collisions, pondering the meaning of life - not in general, but his own. Reflects - and comes to disappointing conclusions, the main of which - her (life) complete absurdity and his (Gleb) complete not only the uselessness, but even the noisiness. And Gleb decides under the influence of his friend the bosom of Stein (Evgeny Grishkovets) and the book brought by the "Living Corpse" of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's light, this cardinal life, not even to change, but to start in general. Yes, that's just what happened here ...
"13 months" could quite adequately fit into the modern television landscape on the expanses of the former USSR, or quietly go out on DVD, but on the screen it still looks like a certain archaism, although for the better, different from the opuses a la Mashchenko. The operator is clearly overplaying the director, demonstrating his skills to the place and out of place, the actors are playing at the level of the provincial vaudeville, and the action is placed in an emasculated and far-fetched world outside of time and space. There are bright spots in the film - Gosha Kutsenko, pulling everything out on his charisma and Alexander Lazarev, flashed (with no extra effort) the skill of the old school, and then, however, in a somewhat buffoonic manner. Watch this movie, it seems, two categories of viewers (which, incidentally, can be quite extensive) - lovers of serials in the spirit of "The Princess of the Circus" and the admirers of the above-mentioned charisma of the actor Kutsenko.