The Creative Team
The Producers
John Freedman
Alexei Zuev
Oksana Mysina
Editors
Oksana Mysina
Sergei Tsunaev
Alexander Kochubei
Svetlana Kochubei
More of the Creative Team
Renata PÅ‚onka
Art Consultant
Renata PÅ‚onka is an artist, animator, and restoration artist. Her paintings of Chania, Crete, are held in countless personal and professional collections. She was on the animation team of the Hollywood film, The Easter Egg Adventure (2004). As a restoration artist she has helped to restore numerous old churches in the environs of her hometown of Krakow, Poland.
Maxim Verkhovsky
Sound Editor
Sound was edited at MuzOtDel na Sretenke in Moscow, general director Alexander Berman
John Freedman
Cinematography and Camera
John Freedman is a writer, translator and scholar of Russian theater and culture. He is the author or editor of 10 books on the topic, including Provoking Theater: Kama Ginkas Directs. His play Dancing, Not Dead won the Internationalists' Global Playwright Contest (2011), and his short play Five Funny Tales from the Heart of Buenos Aires was performed over 100 times by Pop Up Theatrics. Hundreds of his still photos have been published in The Moscow Times and other publications. He debuted as a cinematographer in Red, Blue and Asya, and has since collaborated with his wife Oksana Mysina on other film projects.
Paintings
Alexander Luferov and Sefik Amaev
Three paintings play significant roles in the film: "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and "Night Guests" by Alexander Luferov (aka Lufer), and "The Girl with the Orange" (pictured) by Sefik Amaev.
Music
Sergei Kuchmenko
Composer of original music
Dmitry Yershov
Song Composer
Sergei Shchetinin
Song composer
Oxy Rocks
Live in Moscow
The film includes segments of four songs by Oksana Mysina's rock band Oxy Rocks, "World on Edge" (music by Dmitry Yershov), "No Family Man in Me" (music by Sergei Shchetinin), "The Sky above Me" (music by Yershov), and "The Last Drop" (music by Yershov). All lyrics by Oksana Mysina. The band consists of: Oksana Mysina (vocals, violin), Sergei Shchetinin (guitar), Sergei Kuchmenko (keyboards), and Grigory Gaberman (drums). The group's studio recordings were produced by the extraordinary Valery Cherkesov.