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Lyubov Mulmenko

Lyubov Mulmenko

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Biography

Lyubov Nikitichna Mulmenko (Russian: Любовь Никитична Мульменко; born 1 September, 1985; Perm) is a Russian screenwriter, filmmaker and playwright, journalist, editor. In 2014, two full-length films based on her scripts were presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival. The film "The Hope Factory" (directed by Natalia Meshchaninova) participated in the main competition, the film "Another Year" (dir. Oksana Bychkova) - in the Spectrum contest (and received the main prize "Big Screen Award"). Another scenario work of Mulmenko, the film "Name Me" (dir. Nigina Sayfullayeva), was first shown at the Kinotavr Festival (2014) and received a special mention by the jury with the wording "for easy breathing and the integrity of the artistic solution". These three films were shown at dozens of Russian and European festivals. In 2021, Mulmenko presented his directorial debut - the picture "Danube" - in the main competition of the 32nd Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr".

Known For

Gurlz
6.2

Four young women, Mary, Lola, Katya and Vasilisa, arrive in Moscow from a town to live together in an apartment. They deal with various hilarious situations on a daily basis.

Gurlz

2012
Fidelity
6.7

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

Fidelity

2019
The Red Bracelets
10.0

The series tells about a group of teenagers in a children's hospital, about their growing up and struggling with circumstances, about how the characters are friends and love, respond to the challenges of fate and make principled choices.

The Red Bracelets

2017
Compartment No. 6
7.0

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

Compartment No. 6

2021
About Love. Adults Only
5.5

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

About Love. Adults Only

2017
Unclenching the Fists
6.4

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

Unclenching the Fists

2021
Name Me
6.0

A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be the other person to the father. Little do they know that their joke comes with consequenses that will change their lives forever.

Name Me

2014
Kids
N/A

At the age of 40, the owner of the cabaret Igor understands that women and alcohol no longer bring joy. He is lonely and broken. His teenage son, Petya, has not spoken to him for a year. Igor tries to restore relations, but gets a hard refusal. To find out what is happening in his son's life and what is the reason for such a deep resentment, Igor sends an 18-year-old spy Lera to him. Lera works at Igor's cabaret as a waitress and is secretly in love with the chef, so she can't refuse him. By chance, both Lerin's best friend Danya and a young dancer Masha are involved in a spy operation. Igor does not yet know that these other people's children will become a real school of life and fatherhood for him. And the children still do not know how fateful this experience of "cooperation" with Igor will be.

Kids

2018
Nina
1.0

Nina is barely 40, she is attractive and successful: a stable marriage, a trusting relationship with her husband, a little son, a favorite job. The idyll of pleasant stability is broken by a call from the past - Nina's ex-lover Ruslan is dangerously ill and asks her to come to Tbilisi to see him, perhaps for the last time. The husband does not mind, he knew about their relationship in the past. Nina is happy to go to the city where she was happy in order to support a once loved one in a friendly way. She believes she loves her husband and family and plans to return home soon, not expecting this light trip to be her last.

Nina

2023
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Igor is the director of the Moscow men's club. His 18-year-old son Petya despises such a business and openly criticizes the values and lifestyle of his parent. However, he is returning from London for an inevitable visit to a seedy establishment. There he meets the main dancer Sveta and falls in love with her. But the guy does not suspect that Svetlana has been his father's mistress for several years.

Men's Club

Frau
3.3

Vanya is a salesperson in the Hunter and Fisher shop. Kristina is a ballerina at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. Kristina jokingly calls Vanya a "retro person" for her love of everything old. She herself is a modern person, nostalgia for the romantic past is not characteristic of her. And yet, these two dissimilar people have something in common - the fear of loneliness and the obsession with starting a family.

Frau

2024
The Hope Factory
5.0

Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape which is so blurry, and for love which is so insecure.

The Hope Factory

2014
Another Year
5.4

He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.

Another Year

2014
Danube
4.6

The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders live for joy. At first, Nadia is involved with the local guy Nesha, and then with his relaxed, semi-vagrant way of life. She takes the impulsive decision to give up her dull job and Moscow for the sake of love, freedom and Belgrade. Both this love, and this freedom must undergo the test of reality, which is always more difficult than our expectations.

Danube

2021
Hypnosis
4.8

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After the mysterious death of one of Volkov’s patients, Misha decides to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the truth. But what if the dream and reality merged into one, and in the end he becomes the main suspect?

Hypnosis

2020
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Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

The Thick Woman

2017