Crimson mountains

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.