Anton Yarush

Writing

Anton Yarush

Born 1985-02-07 · Ekaterinburg, USSR (Russia)

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Closeness poster
6.7

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.

Closeness

2017

Stand by Me poster
6.0

Kira is a 30-year-old successful architect living in the illusion of absolute choices while being obsessed with constructing the ideal Moscow. She is used to living life according to her own rules, but she has to face her fear of the future and inability to love. An unexpected tragedy will lead Kira to face her past with her family, start life from the scratch, and become a mother.

Stand by Me

2022

Unclenching the Fists poster
6.4

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

Unclenching the Fists

2021

At Close Distance poster
1.0

In the midst of the pandemic, Inga, a well-known actress, finds a Central Asian migrant food deliverer on her doorstep. Нe is unconscious. At the risk of falling sick, Inga allows the youth to stay at her place, but on one condition.

At Close Distance

2021

Foreign Lands poster
NR

Anton, a successful Russian director in his late thirties, feels hollow despite his career, relationship, and friends. Obsessed with casting the perfect actress for his deeply personal film, he flees to foreign lands, trapped in an exhausting, relentless routine. As weeks pass, the producer makes decisions without him. Alone and spiraling, Anton's self-destruction deepens - until an unexpected, wordless connection offers a faint hope of salvation.

Foreign Lands

2025