Russia, 2025 / 13 min Director: Petr Zakrevskiy 12+
This is a story about two old men with different attitudes towards the nature. One believes that everything about in taiga belongs to him, and therefore he can take it all by right of the strong. The older believes that humans are guests in this world who should behave accordingly and not hurt any living being, but find happiness in communion with the nature.
Petr Zakrevsky (Russia) Pyotr Vasilyevich Zakrevsky was born in the Urals on August 20, 1961, in the Kurinsky forestry settlement, near the town of Irbit. His working career began at the age of seventeen in 1978 at the Kremenchug Automobile Plant (KrAZ) in the city of Kremenchug, where he worked as an adjuster of automatic lines and modular machine tools. He then served in the Soviet Army. From 1984 to 1990, he studied at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, specialising in industrial architecture. In 1991, he took part in the production of the animated film Living Blues by Izolda Solodova as a production designer at the Creative and Production Association (TPO) of Animated Films of the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. Subsequently, he worked at the A-Film Studio as a director, animator, and screenwriter of animated films. From 2006 to 2008, he participated in the production of films at Alexander Petrov's studio in Yaroslavl. In 2007, he initiated the development of the computer program "AnimaShooter" for shooting animated films with digital cameras. Since 2008, he has been working at the company "Animation Technologies" in Yekaterinburg as an executive producer, while continuing to collaborate as a director with the A-Film Studio.