MarsRussia
2004, 97min.
 Script/Dir.: Anna Melikian, Dir. of Phot.: Oleg Lukiev, Compos.: Aleksey Aigi, Edit.: Ivan Lebedev, Sound: Aleksandr Kopeikin, Prod.: Sabina Eremeeva, Ruben Dishdishian.
Cast: Gosha Kutsenko, Nana Kiknadze, Artur Smolianinov.
Boris, a professional boxer from Moscow, wakes up on a train, tries to read the name of a small town through a window. Above the entrance to the train station there is a neon sign with the town’s name, “Mar…s.” If it were not for the missing letter, we would have read the real name of the town, Marks, the last name of the founder of historical materialism. The place was named after the historical figure during Soviet times. Every citizen of Mars has a strong secret dream or desire… it is by all means to get out of Mars. | Melikian, Anna Anna Melikian
She was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She grew up in Yerevan and moved to Moscow in 1994 where she took up studies at a film school in Sergei Soloviov’s studio. She was a post-production trainee on a number of productions in Germany, in 2001. After graduating in 2002, she began working for television. Mars is her first feature film.
Filmography
Andante (1998, short) Let’s Fly (1999, short) Poste Restante (2000, short), Contrabass (2002, short).
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