After years spent studying at home, disabled Lena is keen to get back to school. The attitude of the teachers in charge of the special needs class, however, soon fills her with cruel disenchantment. Debut director Ivan I. Tverdovsky avoids embellishment to unfold an entirely credible drama portraying the unequal struggle of the individual in the face of institutional torpor, human prejudice and a society that tries to trip up people who are different.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 29 min.
- Country, year
- Germany, Russia, 2014
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Russian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Ivan I. Tverdovsky
- Screenplay
- Ivan I. Tverdovsky
- Cinematography
- Fedor Struchev
- Cast
- Maria Poezhaeva, Filipp Avdeyev, Nikita Kukushkin, Artem Markaryan, Irina Vilkova
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- in competition East of the West: main award, Fedeora Award
Director
Ivan I. Tverdovsky
Ivan I. Tverdovsky was born in 1988, in Moscow. In 2011 he graduated from Moscow’s Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). His documentaries have earned honours at Russian and international festivals, among them short As if Waiting for a Bus (2009), Pianism (2012), and shortSpace Dog (2013). Correction Class, inspired by the novel of the same name by psychologist Ekaterina Murashova, is his feature debut.
