Oksana Karas

Directing

Oksana Karas

Born

1979-06-19 (47)

Place of birth

Kharkov, USSR (Ukraine)

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Oksana Mikhailovna Karas (Russian: Оксана Михайловна Карас; born 19 June 1979, Kharkov) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, television director, screenwriter and editor, who works in Russia. In the past, she was a television host and journalist. Karas is best known for the film "The Good Boy", which won the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (2017). Despite the fact that she was born in Ukrainian SSR, her childhood was spent in Kazakhstan in the city of Aktau (formerly Shevchenko). In 2004, she graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia "RUDN", faculty of law. In 2009, she graduated from "VGIK" (workshop Of V. ya. Lonsky). Since 1998, she has worked on telev…

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Offer

2021

Doctor Lisa poster
7.0

The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…

Doctor Lisa

2020

Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century poster
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A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century

2015

The Good Boy poster
5.4

Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

The Good Boy

2016

New Russians 2 poster
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An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

New Russians 2

2015

Casting poster
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Valentine is an actor, he is about 30. There is no money. There is no career. Beloved girl left. An unexpected call and an invitation to the casting are like a gift of fate. Valentine will have to learn about himself that he never knew before. This casting will divide life into "before" and "after".

Casting

2009

Film credits

Behind the camera

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No synopsis available yet.

Offer

2021

Doctor Lisa poster
7.0

The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…

Doctor Lisa

2020

Doctor Lisa poster
7.0

The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…

Doctor Lisa

2020

The Good Boy poster
5.4

Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

The Good Boy

2016

The Good Boy poster
5.4

Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

The Good Boy

2016

Casting poster
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Valentine is an actor, he is about 30. There is no money. There is no career. Beloved girl left. An unexpected call and an invitation to the casting are like a gift of fate. Valentine will have to learn about himself that he never knew before. This casting will divide life into "before" and "after".

Casting

2009

Casting poster
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Valentine is an actor, he is about 30. There is no money. There is no career. Beloved girl left. An unexpected call and an invitation to the casting are like a gift of fate. Valentine will have to learn about himself that he never knew before. This casting will divide life into "before" and "after".

Casting

2009

The Rehearsals poster
5.3

Igor and Alexandra are 30 -years old lovers.She is a theater production designer.He is an actor.She works hard,he drinks.They cannot leave and cannot get on.This story is about eternal problem of choice and talent to listen to ones heart .About a dangerous illusion of the youth that there is a lot of time to make mistakes and that is too early to make decision,to get married,to give birth to a child.The main characters have to realize that there is no time and there is no rough copy we have to live present moment because tomorrow may never come.

The Rehearsals

2013

The Rehearsals poster
5.3

Igor and Alexandra are 30 -years old lovers.She is a theater production designer.He is an actor.She works hard,he drinks.They cannot leave and cannot get on.This story is about eternal problem of choice and talent to listen to ones heart .About a dangerous illusion of the youth that there is a lot of time to make mistakes and that is too early to make decision,to get married,to give birth to a child.The main characters have to realize that there is no time and there is no rough copy we have to live present moment because tomorrow may never come.

The Rehearsals

2013

Ailing Angel poster
6.0

Love is longer than life, memory is stronger than death.

Ailing Angel

2018

Not a Wedding Journey poster
6.0

This is a modern love story that tells us that true feelings can have no laws or boundaries. It would seem that what can be common between the main characters of the picture, which are perfect opposites of each other? He is a young musician, she is the wayward daughter of an oligarch. However, fortunately, life is able to turn everything upside down, providing an opportunity to look at the world from a different angle.

Not a Wedding Journey

2016

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No synopsis available yet.

The Bodyguard

2020

Just Like Grown Ups poster
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How often do we live through two, three, or even more versions of ourselves during one lifetime? How often do we change, irreversibly, under the influence of other people, often close relatives? The timid Polya (24) works as an accountant and studies economics. She is in love with Kirill (25), who is her polar opposite. Kirill is a young cameraman: ambitious and talented. Kirill and Polya love each other and try to live together, but each of them has their own philosophy, their own value system and their own convictions. Even when they part, Kirill and Polya continue to carry on an inner dialogue with each other. Everyone tries to prove to the other that they can achieve everything on the other’s wish list. Twenty years later they meet, and now the heroes must find out the most important thing: whether one of them has found happiness in those years.

Just Like Grown Ups

2016

Just Like Grown Ups poster
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How often do we live through two, three, or even more versions of ourselves during one lifetime? How often do we change, irreversibly, under the influence of other people, often close relatives? The timid Polya (24) works as an accountant and studies economics. She is in love with Kirill (25), who is her polar opposite. Kirill is a young cameraman: ambitious and talented. Kirill and Polya love each other and try to live together, but each of them has their own philosophy, their own value system and their own convictions. Even when they part, Kirill and Polya continue to carry on an inner dialogue with each other. Everyone tries to prove to the other that they can achieve everything on the other’s wish list. Twenty years later they meet, and now the heroes must find out the most important thing: whether one of them has found happiness in those years.

Just Like Grown Ups

2016

High Above poster
4.2

Eighteen-year-old Vasya Tikhonova is travelling with her parents to a medical resort near Moscow, seeking treatment. She has a congenital heart defect, and her mother has always been overprotective. But when the Tikhonov family arrives, a murder is committed at the resort. And within seven days, Vasya’s life will change dramatically. She will meet her first love, she will take a big risk fighting for it, and she will make a discovery that is scary, but grants her freedom.

High Above

2019

The Princess of Muay Thai poster
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The Princess of Muay Thai is a road movie and story of one of preparation for the main in the life of the battle. When the film crew traveled to Bangkok, nobody knew if Valeria Drozdova would win or not. History keeps in suspense until the end. Seven days of fierce training, walking, talking on the souls, the adventures in the lost corners of Thailand, discoveries, nerves, fears which allowed the inevitable culmination - the fight for the championship title.

The Princess of Muay Thai

2013

The Princess of Muay Thai poster
NR

The Princess of Muay Thai is a road movie and story of one of preparation for the main in the life of the battle. When the film crew traveled to Bangkok, nobody knew if Valeria Drozdova would win or not. History keeps in suspense until the end. Seven days of fierce training, walking, talking on the souls, the adventures in the lost corners of Thailand, discoveries, nerves, fears which allowed the inevitable culmination - the fight for the championship title.

The Princess of Muay Thai

2013

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

No Shame, No Conscience

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