ACID
directed by Alexander Gorchilin
Making it out there without a father.
Acid is an ode to youth, a film about 20-year-olds who are entering the real world for the first time. The film is the portrait of a generation looking for meaning in their lives. The main characters justify their irresponsibility and infantile behaviour by the lack of communication with their parents. Their principal agony is that they grew up without fathers ; now the time has come for them to achieve the status of adult males.
DRAMA DCP/HD • 2019 • RUSSIA • 98MIN
CAST Filipp Avdeev, Alexander Kuznetsov, Arina Shevtsova
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Russian
PRODUCED BY Studio Slon
DIRECTOR
ALEXANDER GORCHILIN was born on 3 March 1992 in Moscow. In 2012 he completed his studies at the Moscow Art Theatre School in the workshop of K. Serebrennikov. He is well known as an actor for appearances in several successful films such as The Student by Kirill Serebrennikov (Special prize at the Cannes Film Festival - Un certain regard section), Zoology by Ivan Tverdovsky (Jury Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival) and Yes and Yes by Valeriya Gay Germanika (FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival). Today Alexander Gorchilin is one of the leading actors at the Gogol Center Theatre in Moscow. In 2015 and 2016 he shot two documentaries: Who is happy in Russia? and Russian Folk Tales. Acid is his full-length feature debut film.
FESTIVALS
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 - Official Selection PANORAMA