Shultes

25-year-old Lesha Shultes, a former athlete who suffered a serious injury in a car accident, becomes a pickpocket. He lives with his aged mother in a large city. In the morning he jogs in a park; in the evenings he watches the sports channel on TV. He always buys his groceries at the same store. He doesn’t express his emotions, and none of his acquaintances knows how he makes a living.What is written in the notebook that he carries with him at all times is a mystery. His only encounter with human feelings occurs when he receives a videotape from a young woman he had robbed. This contact with a stranger’s life leads Shultes to rash decisions.
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Script: Bakur Bakuradze
Cinematography: Marina Gornostaeva, Nikolai Vavilov
Editing: Bakur Bakuradze
Sound: Arseny Troitsky
Actors: Gela Chitava (Shultes), Ruslan Grebenkin (Kostik), Lyubov Firsova (Shultes’s mother), Cecile Plaige (young woman in the subway), Vadim Suslov (Shultes’s brother)
Production: CTB Film Company
Producers: Sergei Selyanov, Julia Mishkinene
Costumes: Vladimir Kuptsov
Sets: Kirill Shuvalov
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Russia
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 100
Contact: Intercinema, RussiaElena SmirnovaT.-F. +74 95255 9052post@intercin.ruwww.intercinema.ru

Bakur Bakuradze

He was born in 1969 in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1993, he enrolled in the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied under prominent Russian film director Marlen Khutsiev. In 2005, his documentary film The Diamond Way won the Best Corporate Video prize at the International Business Press Competition. In 2007, his short film Moscow garnered awards at the 3rd Kinoteatr Doc Festival (Moscow) and the 18th Kinotaur Open Russian FF (Sochi). The film was also shown in the short film section of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Short Corner 2007, as well as in other festivals

Filmography

(Selected)
1998 Penniless (short)
2001 At the Cost of One’s Life (doc.)
2002 Vyacheslav Pilipenko (doc.)
2002 The Age of Minfin (doc.)
2007 Moscow (short)
2008 Road of Dreams (doc.)
2008 The Age of Minfin. 205 Years of
Service to the Fatherland (doc.)
2008 Shultes