Doctor Liza (film) explained

Doctor Lisa
Director:Oksana Karas
Cinematography:Sergey Machilsky
Distributor:White Nights
Runtime:120 minutes
Country:Russia
Language:Russian

Doctor Lisa (Russian: Доктор Лиза) is a 2020 Russian biographical drama film directed by Oksana Karas, about Elizabeth Glinka, a Russian humanitarian worker and charity activist.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Plot

The plot is of one day in the life of Elizabeth Glinka who is the head of Fair Care Foundation in Moscow in 2012. As the day starts, Elizabeth and her husband Gleb Glebovich Glinka are going to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Elizabeth is waiting for her three sons and close friends to arrive.

Before the party, the last thing she needs to do is drop by Moscow Paveletsky Railway Station to check on weekly patients at the Fair Care fund and to send humanitarian supplies to people in need.

At the clinic, a man calls Doctor Lisa. In a hospital in the Moscow suburbs his five-year-old girl, Eva, who is dying. The doctor on duty has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. Doctor Lisa agrees to help.

This request results in Doctor Lisa breaking the law for this girl.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Production

Filming began in Moscow in April 2019.

Elizaveta Glinka's widower Gleb Glinka, who acted as a consultant to the filmmakers, starred in the role as a man at the station.

The premiere took place on September 13, 2020 at the Kinotavr 2020 festival.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Cast and crew

ActorRole
Chulpan KhamatovaElizaveta Glinka
Andrzej ChyraGleb Glebovich Glinka
Andrey BurkovskyMajor FSKN Sergei Ivanovich Kolesov
Evgeny PisarevSergei Petrovich, Glinka's partner
Konstantin KhabenskyDenis Valerievich Shevkunov, oncologist
Alexey AgranovichVladimir Alexandrovich, official
Timofey TribuntsevGennady Vladimirovich Ershov, welder
Julia AugElena Alexandrovna Zavyalova, head physician
Tatyana DogilevaTanya, homeless
Sergey FrolovYasha
Sergei SosnovskyGeorgy Andreevich Flapovsky
Elena Koreneva"Volochkova", a patient of Dr. Lisa
Alexey VertkovLenya, psychiatrist
Philip AvdeevMikhail Savchuk, Eva's father
Andrey Tashkova pharmacist
Irina GrinevaKarina Muradovna Surbayeva, Inspector of the Guardianship and Guardianship Department
Natalya TetenovaDoctor Lena
Taisiya Vilkovapregnant girl
Nadezhda KarpovaSnow White
Gleb Glinkaman at the station

Awards and nominations

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://tass.ru/kultura/9556207 Фильм о создании драмы "Доктор Лиза" представили на Patriki Film Festival в Москве
  2. https://www.intermedia.ru/news/351094 «Доктор Лиза» Оксаны Карас и «Эсав» Павла Лунгина откроют фестиваль «Меридианы Тихого»
  3. https://mir24.tv/articles/16426974/proryv-etnicheskogo-kino-i-proyavlenie-novogo-stilya-chem-zapomnilsya-i-chem-razocharoval-kinotavr-2020 Прорыв этнического кино и проявление нового стиля: чем запомнился и чем разочаровал «Кинотавр-2020»?
  4. https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2020/09/21/n_14969641.shtml Главные фильмы фестиваля «Кинотавр» в Okko
  5. http://foundationa.org/public/doctor-lizas-fair-care.html Foundation.org Doctor Liza's Fair Care
  6. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12028944/plotsummary Doctor Lisa (2020)
  7. https://vz.ru/news/2019/4/11/972853.html Filming about Doctor Liza began in Moscow
  8. https://www.hse.ru/news/3085378.html Glinkas return to Russia
  9. https://kinotavr.ru/en/films/743 DOCTOR LIZA Russia, 2020, 16+ About the Film
  10. https://tass.ru/kultura/6325297 Filming of the feature film "Doctor Lisa" began in Moscow
  11. https://www.ntv.ru/novosti /2178222/ Shooting of the film about Dr. Liza has begun
  12. http://www.rewizor.ru/news/doktora-lizu-sygraet-v-kino-chulpan-hamatova/ Doctors Chulpan Khamatova will play Lisa in the movie
  13. https://www.eg.ru/culture/721928-startovali-semki-filma-doktor-liza-s-chulpan-hamatovoy-v-glavnyh-rolyah / The shooting of the film "Doctor Liza" with Chulpan Khamatova in the title role has started
  14. https://www.mk.ru/culture/2020/09/13/khamatova-sygrala- doktora-lizu-muzh-glinki-plakal-na-premere.html Khamatova played Dr. Lisa: Glinka's husband cried at the premiere
  15. https://www.goldenunicornaward.com/nominations&winners?year=2021 Golden Unicorn Awards, Nominees & Winners, 2021
  16. https://www.kinoacademy.ru/news/laureaty-premii-zolotoy-orel-za-2020-god Best music (Yuri Poteyenko) Winners of the Golden Eagle Award for 2020
  17. http://kino-nika.com/page19132737.html Laureates of the XXXIV
  18. https://www.kinotavr.ru/en/history/2020/incompetition Competition
  19. https://www.interfax.ru/russia/727638 The film "Doctor Lisa" received the Audience Award at the "Kinotavr"
  20. https://tass.ru/kultura/10194139 Veche festival of historical films ended in Veliky Novgorod