
Writing
Nadezhda Kozhushanaya
Born — Died
1952-03-15 — 1997-01-15
Place of birth
Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Writing
Credits
15 titles
Nadezhda Kozhushanaya was a Soviet, Russian screenwriter and writer. She was a philologist and a musician by education, a playwright by vocation. Nadezhda said: "I live and write with love to my crazy time". Although she died at the age of 44, she was referred to as "The most gifted screenwriter of the perestroika epoch".
Known for
5.9Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
Mirror for a Hero
1988
4.1The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.
The Leg
1991
5.0After a high-school teacher gets hospitalized, her ex-husband is left in charge of their teenage daughter.
Tamara Aleksandrovna's Husband and Daughter
1988
NRA chance meeting, crazy love. The factory girl Tanya and the young lieutenant Sasha, who was going to the front line with his unit, spent only a few hours together in besieged Leningrad...
We Cannot Predict...
1986
4.2A careless mother is going on a date with another fan and, in order to brighten up her daughter's loneliness, leaves her alone with a pink doll - the same doll that "wanders around the city and why it is vain to destroy little children". The girl considers the doll to be very realistic, therefore she associates it with herself, and herself with her mother. So begin the serious experiences of a girl who understands that this doll bought off her. At night, the girl dreams a terrible dream in which the doll embodies all her fears... "Pink Doll" creates the illusion of a spellbound fall into the abyss of children's dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The sensual effect is achieved by the game of scale and angle, the nervous rhythm of intraframe movement and graphic thickening of reality.
Pink Doll
1997
6.5On the eve of the wedding Mother Nyurka heats up the sauna, and the household spirit makes sure that the whole wedding company get their long-deserved thrashing.
Nyurka's Bath
1995
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
4.1The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.
The Leg
1991
NRReflections of the brilliant film composer Oleg Karavaichuk on life and art.
Oleg Karavaichuk. The Big Waltz for the Colosseum
1995
Behind the camera
5.9Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
Mirror for a Hero
1988
4.1The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.
The Leg
1991
5.0After a high-school teacher gets hospitalized, her ex-husband is left in charge of their teenage daughter.
Tamara Aleksandrovna's Husband and Daughter
1988
NRA chance meeting, crazy love. The factory girl Tanya and the young lieutenant Sasha, who was going to the front line with his unit, spent only a few hours together in besieged Leningrad...
We Cannot Predict...
1986
4.2A careless mother is going on a date with another fan and, in order to brighten up her daughter's loneliness, leaves her alone with a pink doll - the same doll that "wanders around the city and why it is vain to destroy little children". The girl considers the doll to be very realistic, therefore she associates it with herself, and herself with her mother. So begin the serious experiences of a girl who understands that this doll bought off her. At night, the girl dreams a terrible dream in which the doll embodies all her fears... "Pink Doll" creates the illusion of a spellbound fall into the abyss of children's dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The sensual effect is achieved by the game of scale and angle, the nervous rhythm of intraframe movement and graphic thickening of reality.
Pink Doll
1997
6.5On the eve of the wedding Mother Nyurka heats up the sauna, and the household spirit makes sure that the whole wedding company get their long-deserved thrashing.
Nyurka's Bath
1995
NRA man from the city arrives at the village to the house his grandmother Nyura. He didn't like his grandmother's inheritance, so Nyura's friend decides to teach her grandson a lesson and invites the house spirits Akulka and Dunyka. At night, they sing and dance, turning the house upside down, so that the heir remembers his childhood and comes to his senses.
Let Bygones Be Bygones
1989
5.3The film shows children from a village who play football for money
Toro
1986
NRThe old shaman has become quite ill and so he tests the cuckoo's little nephew to impart to him his skill in magical interaction with the spirits of water and sky. The boy becomes a shaman.
The Cuckoo's Nephew
1992
No synopsis available yet.
At Night Around the City
1983
NROlya, a straight-A middle school student, is experiencing her parents' break-up and her first love at the same time, all while struggling to maintain the image of a perfect child. One day she stays at her mom's house for a sleepover; the next day, she goes to her dad's. Neither parent is happy about the arrangement, nor is Olya. This is a coming-of-age story set in a small, bleak Russian town.
Playing With Dolls
2010
NRFamily history. About how the Grandmother taught the boy to save. Saving another creature, the boy begins to live. Personality formation is taking place (and the boy may not even know about it). Grandma did it all right, but she was tired.
Grandmother
1996
