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Oksana Karas

Oksana Karas

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Biography

Oksana Mikhailovna Karas (Russian: Оксана Михайловна Карас; born 19 June 1979, Kharkov) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, television director, screenwriter and editor, who works in Russia. In the past, she was a television host and journalist. Karas is best known for the film "The Good Boy", which won the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (2017). Despite the fact that she was born in Ukrainian SSR, her childhood was spent in Kazakhstan in the city of Aktau (formerly Shevchenko). In 2004, she graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia "RUDN", faculty of law. In 2009, she graduated from "VGIK" (workshop Of V. ya. Lonsky). Since 1998, she has worked on television as a presenter, correspondent, sports commentator, film reviewer, author and director of documentaries (NTV channels, NTV-Plus Sport, VGTRK Kultura). In 2008, as a director, she released the TV series "Detective Brothers", and also wrote the script and directed the short film "Casting", which received the Grand Prix Of the International Festival "Unprecedented cinema" in Estonia. The first full-length film "The Rehearsals" removed in 2013. She also acted as a script writer for the project. In the same year, as a director, Karas worked on the TV series "Missing Persons" and the film "Princess Muay Thai". In 2015, she wrote the script for the Comedy "Not a Wedding Trip". In 2016, "The Good Boy" was released, on which Karas worked as a director, screenwriter and editor. The film received the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr", won the audience vote, organized by the portal "Kinopoisk" during the "Kinotavr", and also earned the "Golden Rook" for the third place in the audience competition "Vyborg Account" within the 24th Festival of Russian Cinema "Window to Europe". Further, Karas participates in the work on the short film "Just Like Grown Ups" as a screenwriter and director, as well as on the TV series and the film of the same name "Neophyte". In 2018, she released the film "Ailing Angel" again with Semyon Treskunov in the title role. In June 2019, the premiere of her film "High Above" took place, the shooting process of which took place in 2018. In 2020, the feature film "Doctor Liza" (dedicated to the life of Elizabeth Glinka) became a participant at the main competition of "Kinotavr".

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Neophyte
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April 1958. Maria Krapivina, a graduate of the law faculty of Leningrad University, Department of criminal procedure and criminalistics, is assigned to the UGRO of the Central district police Department. Just a girl, an excellent student, the daughter of intelligent parents falls into a team consisting of rough and experienced operatives who have passed the war. On the first day, Masha wants to quit. But she gets her hands on information about a traitor in the Department associated with a large and audacious gang. Masha decides that it is her duty to stay and uncover the "mole". And also to prove that it is worth something. Everyone falls under suspicion, including the head of the Opera Department of the Swedes ,the "uncouth lout", with whom Masha unexpectedly falls in love, and every day more and more..

Neophyte

2017Series
The Official
6.7

The life of Arina Alferova, an official of the regional Ministry of Health, is very prosperous: a nice apartment in the city center, a decent foreign car, morning styling, shopping trips to Moscow, jewelry, expensive shoes. After all, the head of the finance and economics department can afford something. And sometimes even more than that. Especially if your lover does business with the largest pharmaceutical company in the region. What's in return? Put a couple of signatures on the contracts. Carried away by her personal life, she does not notice what each of her signatures is worth. One day, a bitter reckoning will come too close to her — a loved one dies from fake pills. So the official decides to integrate herself into the corrupt chain in order to get to the very top — to the minister — and drown everyone.

The Official

2021Series
Doctor Lisa
6.8

The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…

Doctor Lisa

2020Movie
Just Like Grown Ups
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How often do we live through two, three, or even more versions of ourselves during one lifetime? How often do we change, irreversibly, under the influence of other people, often close relatives? The timid Polya (24) works as an accountant and studies economics. She is in love with Kirill (25), who is her polar opposite. Kirill is a young cameraman: ambitious and talented. Kirill and Polya love each other and try to live together, but each of them has their own philosophy, their own value system and their own convictions. Even when they part, Kirill and Polya continue to carry on an inner dialogue with each other. Everyone tries to prove to the other that they can achieve everything on the other’s wish list. Twenty years later they meet, and now the heroes must find out the most important thing: whether one of them has found happiness in those years.

Just Like Grown Ups

2016Movie