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Kitezh2026
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Film Festival2026 EDITION
Film Festival2026 EDITION
About the film
Short film
- Director
- Dmitry Suleymanov
- Country
- Russia
- Runtime
- 16 min
- Language
- Russian
Film still
Film stills
5 STILLSSynopsis
A guard at Lenin’s Mausoleum pursues an old hermit who has stolen Lenin’s mummy. He discovers that dark forces rule the country and that burying the Soviet leader could open the gates to the legendary city of Kitezh. He must choose between duty and the chance to recover a lost paradise.
Credits
- Director, writer
- Dmitry Suleymanov
- Producers
- Dmitry Suleymanov, Nino Razmadze, Andrey Zharsky
- Cinematographer
- Kirill Terentyev
- Editing
- Alexey Volodin
- Sound
- Ivan Shvedov
- Music
- Ilya Bulatov
- Cast
- Alexander Grushkovsky, Vladimir Kotov, Sergey Vasin, Egor Baranovsky, Roman Shopin
Director
Dmitry Suleymanov
Dmitry Suleymanov
Dmitry Suleymanov was born in Russia’s Far North in 1994. He worked at the Bulgakov Theatre and explored experimental filmmaking. He graduated from the Moscow Film School’s directing programme in 2025. His debut How Foxes Degenerate screened at the Koroche festival.
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