
Directing
Andjei Petras
Born 1972-08-02 · Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRDocumentary in the form of a musical tragi-musical on the people who live in the four corners of a very vast country. Valechka is a bearded man of gigantic size. He prepares an old tub to descend the Neva and considers his homeland is the Soviet Union. Ivan Ivanovich likes music, the army and Irina Pavlovna. Nika lives in Yalta and goes to school. She considers that her homeland is Russia and wants to serve at the Ministry of the Interior. Macha has chosen college rather than an actress career and she wants to help people. During the filming, the life of each of them has changed. What is their homeland now and in what role do they want to serve it?
I Want To Serve
2018
NRDocumentary in the form of a musical tragi-musical on the people who live in the four corners of a very vast country. Valechka is a bearded man of gigantic size. He prepares an old tub to descend the Neva and considers his homeland is the Soviet Union. Ivan Ivanovich likes music, the army and Irina Pavlovna. Nika lives in Yalta and goes to school. She considers that her homeland is Russia and wants to serve at the Ministry of the Interior. Macha has chosen college rather than an actress career and she wants to help people. During the filming, the life of each of them has changed. What is their homeland now and in what role do they want to serve it?
I Want To Serve
2018
NRDocumentary in the form of a musical tragi-musical on the people who live in the four corners of a very vast country. Valechka is a bearded man of gigantic size. He prepares an old tub to descend the Neva and considers his homeland is the Soviet Union. Ivan Ivanovich likes music, the army and Irina Pavlovna. Nika lives in Yalta and goes to school. She considers that her homeland is Russia and wants to serve at the Ministry of the Interior. Macha has chosen college rather than an actress career and she wants to help people. During the filming, the life of each of them has changed. What is their homeland now and in what role do they want to serve it?
I Want To Serve
2018
Conditional 60s in a conditional country in a constructed fairy-tale world. In the old house on different floors live: Officer, Journalist and Composer. Their life is full of lies to each other and to ourselves. They have a neighbor - an unusual boy nicknamed "Whistler." He perceives the world through music and expresses his attitude towards a life of wondrous beauty by whistling. The only thing he wants is to make friends. But the neighbors do not notice the boy and his music. With this inattention, they build their fate, not suspecting what a “boomerang” it could return ...
Мастерская художественного свиста
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Conditional 60s in a conditional country in a constructed fairy-tale world. In the old house on different floors live: Officer, Journalist and Composer. Their life is full of lies to each other and to ourselves. They have a neighbor - an unusual boy nicknamed "Whistler." He perceives the world through music and expresses his attitude towards a life of wondrous beauty by whistling. The only thing he wants is to make friends. But the neighbors do not notice the boy and his music. With this inattention, they build their fate, not suspecting what a “boomerang” it could return ...
Мастерская художественного свиста
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Conditional 60s in a conditional country in a constructed fairy-tale world. In the old house on different floors live: Officer, Journalist and Composer. Their life is full of lies to each other and to ourselves. They have a neighbor - an unusual boy nicknamed "Whistler." He perceives the world through music and expresses his attitude towards a life of wondrous beauty by whistling. The only thing he wants is to make friends. But the neighbors do not notice the boy and his music. With this inattention, they build their fate, not suspecting what a “boomerang” it could return ...
Мастерская художественного свиста
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NRBased on a story by H.C. Andersen, with new magical heroes, terrifying “woodpunk” robot dogs, real puppet theater, songs & dance numbers. Little Hans, a kind itinerant storyteller, opens his magic box, takes out his puppets, and, together with his spectators, creates a new fairytale. But not every character obeys the puppet master’s strings. The truth of the fairytale breaks everyday rules: here loyalty and friendship make miracles; love destroys the strongest magic spells; and a song wins a war!
The Tinderbox Against the Magic Well
2026
NRBased on a story by H.C. Andersen, with new magical heroes, terrifying “woodpunk” robot dogs, real puppet theater, songs & dance numbers. Little Hans, a kind itinerant storyteller, opens his magic box, takes out his puppets, and, together with his spectators, creates a new fairytale. But not every character obeys the puppet master’s strings. The truth of the fairytale breaks everyday rules: here loyalty and friendship make miracles; love destroys the strongest magic spells; and a song wins a war!
The Tinderbox Against the Magic Well
2026
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Петля
2010
NRNew Russian experimental film, which combines fiction and documentary scenes in one continuous narration. The shooting of the film took place in Buryatia - a South-Eastern part of Russia that is considered the center of Buddhism in Russia. In the fictional story a Moscow actress comes to faraway Buryatia to find the man she once loved. She is terminally ill and Buryatia gives her a second chance, she does not believe in miracles, but miracle happens. The real actress Julia Aug, like her character, is also in Buryatia for the first time. The documentary, filmed during the shooting of the film, shows the real Julia's feelings and experiences while she discovers the unique atmosphere, nature and culture of Buryatia.
A Touch of Wind
2016
