
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Writing
Biography
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist, painter, singer, screenwriter and playwright. She began her career writing and putting on plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose. She is best known for her plays, novels, including 'The Time: Night' (1992), and collections of short stories, notably 'There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby'. In 2017, she published a memoir, 'The Girl from the Metropol Hotel'. She is considered one of Russia's premier living literary figures, having been compared in style to Anton Chekhov and in influence to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Her works have won a number of accolades, including the Russian Booker Prize, the Pushkin Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.
Known For

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
Tale of Tales

Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times and peoples according to a survey of film critics and animators from different countries.
A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog

The Cat tries in vain to get the attention of the beloved Lady-Cat by singing, but she does not pay attention, as she is too busy watching various TV shows. The Cat decides to get on TV and perform with his song there, but he constantly gets claims - "we do not take tails", "why on earth do you have a striped face", and the last remark about "fur mittens" the Cat is angry and shows claws . After that, he is categorically forbidden for the show, to which the Cat responds with the threat of "spoiling all your television."
Cat Which Could Sing

The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected.
The Hare's Tail

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Мирные огоньки - 2025
The film tells about the former journalist of the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, adviser to the Roscosmos state corporation Ivan Safronov. On July 7, 2020, Safronov was arrested, charged with high treason and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. So far, several months after Ivan's arrest, neither he, nor the defense, nor the public have been presented with a single piece of evidence of the journalist's guilt.
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Love

An animated film based on the fairy tale of the same name by Korney Chukovskiy about how a crocodile swallowed the sun, and it became dark and sad on Earth. But the bear overcame the crocodile and returned the sun to the sky.
Stolen Sun

Three women in their thirties live in the summer with their young sons in the dacha. Svetlana, Tatiana and Ira are third cousins, and they raise their children alone. The women quarrel, finding out who owns half of the dacha, whose son is the offender and whose son is the offended... Svetlana and Tatiana live at the dacha for free, but the ceiling leaks on their half. Ira rents a room from Fedorovna, the owner of the other half of the dacha, but she is not allowed to use the toilet belonging to her sisters.
Three Girls in Blue

A very first adaptation of the black tales written by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, the living classic of Russian literature. Black Coat, a mid-length movie that tells about adventures of two suicided women between life and death, has been shooting in Norilsk, the most Northern industrial city of the world, in winter time when the normal temperature is below -50 Celcium degrees. A pilot for a feature film or/and series.
Black Coat

How a small onion helped a cabbage out of trouble.
You're Nothing But Tears

The life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg.
The Overcoat

Follows the extraordinary adventures of Kolya Rogov.
Lyamzi-Tyri-Bondi the Evil Wizard

About a rude chicken and a well-mannered worm.
Nobody Understands

A young man askes the neighbour to water the onion during his absence. The neighbour at first refuses to take the keys. Eventually, she agrees, however. When she's left, the young man takes out a rope and climbs up on the table ... The film based on the play by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, famous russian writer.