Myortvye docheri (2007)

Director:

Pavel Ruminov

Writer:

Pavel Ruminov (writer)

Release Date:

1 February 2007 (Russia)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Tagline:

Be Good or Die

Plot:

In present-day Moscow ghosts of three little girls killed by their insane mother randomly pick a person to watch over for a three days...

Plot Keywords:

Death | Friends | Ghost | Murder

Cast

Yekaterina Shcheglova	...	Anna
Mikhail Dementyev	...	Anton
Nikita Yemshanov	...	Nikita
Darya Charusha	...	Vera
Artyom Semakin	...	Yegor
Ravshana Kurkova	...	Rita
Mikhail Yefimov	...	Stepan
Ivan Volkov	...	Maks
Yelena Morozova	...	Sister
Irina Brazgovka	...	Usherette
Olga Bondareva	...	Extrasensory individual
Yelizaveta Stishova	...	Employee
Pyotr Rytov	...	Client
Irina Fatkina	...	Client
Dmitri Sergin	...	Anton's neighbour

Also Known As:

Мёртвые дочери (Russia)
Anna i docheri (Russia) (working title)
Dead Daughters (International: English title)

Runtime:

123 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company:

Central Partnership

Trivia:

Was initially intended to be a glossy production with CGI ghosts and a lot of special effects. After filming was complete director Pavel Ruminov and producer Ruben Dishdishyan decided to go for a grittier, more realistic look

Quotes:

[on the phone]
Anton: Hi. Is that you?
Vera: Well, yes. I think so.
Anton: Are you OK?
Vera: Damn...
Anton: Vera...
Vera: No, I'm not. I've run out of milk.
Anton: That's all?
Vera: Isn't that enough?

Movie Connections:

References E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

cold kiss of late fall

First full screen movie from Ruminov is much more attractive than his previous short experiences. In Dead Daughters you see an experiment with j-horror form: not mysterious, not very scary, but full of daily life, terrific music, sympathetic heroes and beautiful views. It's more intellectual, than scarier. And this movie is the best experiment I've ever seen in modern Russia. I've seen it after new work of Dmitry Meschiev called «Seven cabins»: pretensions trash inspirited by Tarantino. No idea, no live characters, really nothing to say about. And this is why do I love Dead Daughters. It's like fresh air for me to know, that someone in Russia wants to bring his own soul and heart into the multiplexes. Not only special effects and pop-actors playing. This movie takes you to the simple life of young people in big city. The atmosphere is very cold, because it's late fall and the death is out there. And heroes have to be good if they want to stay alive. But what does it mean, to be good? Drive careful, say truth to you customers or not to blame new relies of rock-group? Who knows what's to be good in the world without rules.