No-One (2018 film)
No-One is a 2018 Israeli-Ukrainian film directed by Vladimir Prudkin and Lev Prudkin, with a script by Vladimir and Lev Prudkin. It stars Slava Jolobov, Natalia Vdovina, George Marchenko, Elizaveta adi kvetner Boyarskaya, and Alexey Agranovich. The film’s cinematography is by Ziv Berkovich, David Stragmeister, and Boris Litovchenko, with music by Evsey Evseyev. Production companies include Mirage Adventures and Prudkin & Prudkin Film, among others. It runs 117 minutes and is in Russian.
No-One premiered at the 40th Moscow International Film Festival on April 23, 2018, and has won several awards at international festivals, including Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Vienna Independent Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the Winchester Film Festival. It was later shown at the Marché du Film during the 74th Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
Plot overview: Set in Crimea during the collapse of the Soviet Union, No-One is a family revenge tale that evolves into a meditation on fate and historical guilt. It offers an unusual reimagining of Shakespeare’s Othello, moving the setting from Venice to Moscow and from Cyprus to Crimea. In this parallel reality, a highly educated general leads a brutal Russian secret police organization, while his cunning nephew—cast as the Iago figure—becomes his most trusted insider. As the story unfolds, manipulations and rivalries spiral into a deadly cycle of betrayals and consequences, suggesting that certain forces of fate may drive events beyond anyone’s control.
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