Who, If Not Us (1999)

Kto, Esli Ne My | Russia

This movie deals with two friends, 13-14 year old boys. One comes from a more or less stable home (although he is growing up with single mom) and another comes from a broken up family. One day the kids break into a store to pretty much have fun and get something to eat, short time after they get caught and one kid is sent to juvenile prison (14 year old) and another one is released to his being too young to be tried (13 years old). The younger kid feels bad about such decision, feels guilty and tries to help his friend in any way possible. While trying to help he is meeting a guy, who is ex-cop and now down-on-his-luck drunk(played by Priyomykhov himself)... the two become friends. In the finale, the ex-cop has to go one of the PTA meeting at school (his mother could not get away from work and knows nothing about the ex-cop) where suddenly his mother appears and meets the "father"...

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Description

Director

Valeriy Priyomykhov

Stars

Artur Smolyaninov

Yevgeniy Kraynov

Tatyana Yakovenko

Valeriy Priyomykhov

Tatyana Dogileva

Albert Filozov

Oksana Arbuzova

Nikolay Chindyaykin

Semyon Furman

Lyanka Gryu

Others...

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Production

Mosfilm, Kuryer, Mosfilm

Actor

Artur Smolyaninov, Yevgeniy Kraynov, Tatyana Yakovenko, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Tatyana Dogileva, Albert Filozov, Oksana Arbuzova, Nikolay Chindyaykin, Semyon Furman, Lyanka Gryu, Olga Mashnaya, Ivan Okhlobystin, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Aleksey Panin, Nadezhda Markina, Dmitry Prokofyev, Olga Sirina, Valeriy Magdyash, Ivan Vlasov, Oleg Marusev, Tatyana Kravchenko, Yulia Rogachkova, Filimon Sergeyev, Mikhail Burlakov, Elena Drobysheva, Valentina Svetlova, Sergey Nerobeev

Creators

Valeriy Priyomykhov (Director), Karen Shakhnazarov (Producer), Vladimir Martynov (Original Music Composer), Galina Shadur (Executive Producer), Yuriy Shevchuk (Music), Aleksandr Nosovskiy (Director of Photography), Vladimir Kirs (Production Design), Mikhail Nizhinsky (Production Design)

Alternative titles

Who, If Not Us (US)
Kto, esli ne my (RU)

Release dates

10.10.1998 (US)
06.06.1998 (RU)