Film

The Pencil

7.020191h 32m16+Drama

Age rating: 16+
Director: Natalya Nazarova
Year: 2019

Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.

Top cast

Nadezhda Gorelova

Antonina Zolotareva

Vladimir Mishukov

Sergey Zolotarev

Aleksandr Doronin

Andrey Voronov

Alina Khodzhevanova

Head teacher

Olesya Ivantsova

Vera

Alexandr Kolchevsky

Misha Ponomarev

Kirill Veselov

Dima Dyomkin

Evgeny Startsev

Alexey Ponomarev

Directed by

Natalya Nazarova

Written by

Natalya Nazarova

Produced by

Denis Kovalevsky, Maxim Dashkin, Anna von Dziembowska, Boris Frumin