
Semen Serzin
Directing
Biography
Semen Nikolaevich Serzin (Russian: Семён Николаевич Серзин; born 12 June 1987, Murmansk) is a Russian film and theatre actor, director. In 2011, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts (workshop of V. M. Filshtinsky). Chief director of the Etude theater from 2013 to 2015. Creator of the independent theater Association Invisible Theater (Saint Petersburg). In addition to directing, Semyon Serzin is engaged in film and teaches theater arts. Semyon Serzin's performance " Bashlachev. Sverdlovsk-Leningrad and Back" (based on the documentary play by Y. Pulinovich, P. Borodina) in 2014 was nominated for the "Golden Mask Award". But it was removed in connection with the scandal. Bashlachev's relatives opposed the performance. (2014) Was nominated for the "Golden Mask Award". (2014/2018) Was nominated for the "Breakthrough award". (2019) Winner of the festival "Small Towns of Russia" (performance "Heart of a Dog"). (2019) Winner of the festival "Directing lessons" (the play "A Man from Podolsk»).
Known For

Svetlana sets out to find her adopted daughter, who left to find her real parents and disappeared. At the same time in this resort town, a thirteen-year-old girl shoots her sleeping family, after which she tries to hang herself. A neighbor comes running to the gunshots and pulls the girl out of the noose. The head of the police of the district entrusts the investigation of the high-profile case to investigator Elvira Barayeva. But how are Svetlana, a St. Petersburg judge with a dark past, and her adopted daughter Kira connected to this case and this place?
The Highway

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

The story takes place on a quiet peninsula away from Buenos Aires, where more than the first generation of Russian Old Believers live, preserving their language, faith and way of life. The main characters are real opposites: she is an Old Believer who lives by the rules of the community, and he is a policeman, an emigrant from Russia, who knows no mercy for criminals. They were not destined to meet, but their paths crossed…
El Russo

Meet Nastya, 29 years old, designer-architect, married. Five completely different inner selves get along in it. This is the inner child; the hostess responsible for the attacks of all general cleaning; the control-obsessed demanding parent; the goddess of pleasure and a self-confident, daring careerist. Each of them has their own interests and ideas about happiness. They cheat, argue and fight among themselves. But when Nastya simultaneously loses her job, husband and best friend, the five will face a difficult task. They will have to learn how to negotiate with each other and make compromises — all in order for Nastya to be able to say with confidence: "I love myself all!"
Nastya, Cheer Up!

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Leto

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Petrov's Flu

A traumatic experience leads to a break-up between a young married couple. In a desperate attempt to save their marriage, Andrey, the husband, seeks help from a psychic named Mara. His only wish is to make his wife Olga forget the past. Mara's magic works, but the second honeymoon soon turns into a living nightmare... Andrey gradually recognizes that he is dealing with a powerful evil that possesses his wife, and the price of the psychic's service is Olga’s life.
Side Effect

Evgenia Pokrovskaya is a traumatologist at the Institute of Emergency Medicine. She fights every shift to save the lives of patients, overcoming the gender prejudices of colleagues. Despite this, she tries to devote time to her personal life.
Sklif

Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.
Ryzhy

A simple guy from Podolsk ends up in the Moscow Police Department and morally prepares for all sorts of humiliations. But the representatives of the law suddenly turn out to be exacting intellectuals…
Man from Podolsk

200 years ago, the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov was born. The young man with huge eyes: his portrait is known to everyone since school. Lermontov wrote poetry, fought, fell in love, and was killed in a duel. Short life of 27 years. But what do we know about the real Lermontov? Biographical documentary-feature film tells in detail about the life of an outstanding person and a great poet.
Lermontov

The relationship between Katya and her mother cannot be called simple anyway, but here, in the midst of the working day, Katya learns that her mother never flew with her friend to the resort, disappearing from the airport in an unknown direction. Having learned from the doctor the real reason for her mother's strange behavior, Katya not only reunites with her, but also reveals a lot of new things about her mother and herself.
Winter Season

Sasha Ivanov is an ordinary man who committed suicide: on a gloomy day he fell out of the window of a high–rise building. Our nameless protagonist is an ordinary detective who is investigating this case. when he reveals the circumstances of Sasha's death, he has to interrogate neighbors, coworkers, ex-girlfriend and other people who knew him. to his surprise, the detective discovers that each witness describes Sasha as a completely different person…
A Similar Man
The main character of the movie "How to get a woman" - an employee of the Observatory Petya. Every night he looks at the stars and believes in love, which is written in novels and told in old movies. Getting acquainted, he asks how to find the North star, because it is important for him that the girl was a romantic. At twenty-six, he is alone, because he has not yet received an answer to this question.
How to Get a Woman

St. Petersburg streets. Cloudy day. The inflamed consciousness. The feeling of an invisible presence of somebody behind you. Who you want to be. your shadow... The shadow challenges you. All you have to do is figure out who really exists-you or your shadow.
Feeling the Shadow

Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker are involved in several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting the “golden youth” beauty Sabina, he looks for a fresh start in downtown circles, but only finds contempt. His hopes for love, compassion and opportunity are dashed by the even more ruthless rules of the bourgeois, and he comes to realize that the only one he can count on is himself.
People Out There

During the Victory day celebration, the heroes realize that the themed military party has been replaced by the reality of the fascist rear. Five guys, known to the audience from the first part of the film, find themselves in a German beer hall. In the confusion of the battle, they manage to escape, but in the confusion, "aliens from the 21st century" accidentally injure a red army soldier named Kantaria. Friends understand that if he does not survive, the course of history will change — who will plant the flag on the Reichstag? Now their task is to get to their own, not to let the future war hero die and, of course, go back to their time…
Fog 2
The young wife dies instantly and absurdly in his arms. After death, it seems to him everywhere, leading him into the pool of death. To unwind, he goes to the dead of season at the sea-to the place where they first made love, succumbing to an instant flash of attraction. Dreams, memories and fantasies become his curse – he lives in the past. But one day his dreams and visions come true. A woman who looks like his wife will appear on the embankment, so that he will forever part with the image of his deceased wife.
Amethyst
Vanya and Sonya got married early-contrary to the superstition that early marriage leads to a quick divorce. A year after the birth of their daughter, they go out together to the pub and there they quarrel-it would seem, just like that. But Sonya takes the situation seriously and leaves the house, leaving a note to Vanya – "we must break up". But they will only be able to live without each other for one day – a day of memories and sadness. During this day, they will understand that nothing is more important than being together.
Hold Your Hand
A measured car journey through Italy of a young 30-year-old couple on the eve of the wedding explodes with the arrival of the groom's younger brother. Under the rubble of rock and roll, arranged by the brother at their own expense-will be their ideals, ideas about life, goals and love, as well as their relationship and upcoming marriage. After the last free summer, autumn will come, and each of the three will have to answer for their actions.