Svetlana Mertsalova

Svetlana Mertsalova

Actor, Director and Screenwriter

Bern, Switzerland

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February 2018
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About Svetlana

I began career as a writer. The first book was published in 2008. Now I have several books, of these, the most famous are "When a butterfly breaks its wings" and "The reverse side of glamor", "Resound of the past". In 2012 I graduated from the directing department of the Higher School of Directors and Screenwriters in St. Petersburg. I was a screenwriter and director of short films: "The Dolls Come to Live at Midnight", "Shoot faster, baby!", "Forget to remember", "Behind the mirror" Participant of the competition program of the 7th International Film Festival "DROP", "REC", "12MFF", "Window to Europe"

Certifications

Credits

  • Life is Timeless

    Life is Timeless (2019)
    Film (Fantasy) Director

  • Tayny sledstviya

    Tayny sledstviya (2000 - 2019)
    Series by Mikhail Vasserbaum (Crime) Young girl-investigator drags on herself all the prosecutor's office of Leningrad.

  • The Ninth

    The Ninth (2018 - 2019)
    Film by Nikolay Khomeriki Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian

  • IRMA

    IRMA (0000 - 2019)
    Film (short) by Svetlana Mertsalova Irma Sophie plans to kill her husband who fell in love with Irma. Sophie envisages everything, but does not know that her plan is already known to her rival...

  • Behind the mirror

    Behind the mirror (2018)
    Film Director

  • Kvadraty

    Kvadraty (2018)
    Documentary Four people, like the four corners, are irreconcilably equal to each other. Ten squares - a mosaic in which she reveals a face: hidden from looks local and the smallest person, modest housewives and princesses shocking, movie stars and beggars dreamers. Each square, as a window to humanity - four incompatible different views, concentrated in the center of one question.

  • Forget To Remember

    Forget To Remember (2017)
    Film (short) by Svetlana Mertsalova (Drama) Dina Dina's carefree life changes with the return of the ex-husband from the prison. She has a new family and his parish does not fit into Dina's life. The inevitability of choice. Inability to understand another...

  • Shoot faster, baby!

    Shoot faster, baby! (2016 - 2017)
    Film (short) by Svetlana Mertsalova (Film-Noir) Amanda Amanda wants to get rid of her husband. She asks Mike to help her. He agrees and thereby signs himself a death sentence…

  • The Duelist

    The Duelist (2015 - 2016)
    Film by Aleksey Mizgiryov (Action and Drama) In the 19th century Russia, the former military man of honor makes his own way in life participating in a deadly fights for other people as professional duelist.

  • "At the time loop"

    "At the time loop" (2015 - 2016)
    Film (short) by Svetlana Mertsalova (Mystery and Sci-Fi) Lera found the photo, which sees itself in a strange place. She's never been here. It seems someone's stupid joke, but in the end she finds herself embroiled in a strange game. All events are confused and do not understand it, where dreams and where reality... And can she trust anyone?

  • When the butterfly is torn off the wings

    When the butterfly is torn off the wings (2015 - 2016)
    Film (short) by Svetlana Mertsalova As a child, she was amused, cutting off the butterfly wings. With age, "fun" became more cruel, and the reasons for that are enough: here and maniacal love, and all-destroying jealousy, and perverted hatred ... In the office, the employees poison her, trying to lime. From daily humiliations, the main character decides on a desperate act - to destroy one of the butterflies. And she succeeds... The story of loneliness, completed by murder... Expansive love story, carrying death...

  • The dolls come to life at midnight

    The dolls come to life at midnight (2014 - 2015)
    Film (short) by Svetlana Mertsalova (Drama and Mystery) Unable to get rid of nightmares, Anna realizes that faced with the fact that defies logic and from which there is no escape… The farther she tries to penetrate the mystery of the curse, gravitating above it, the more confused…

Awards

  • Lisbon Film Rendezvous
    (2019)

  • Rome Independent Prisma Awards
    (2019)

  • 12 Months Film Festival
    (2019)

  • Russian Elementary Cinema
    (2019)

  • Russian Elementary Cinema
    (2018)

  • Window to Europe
    (2018)

  • Oniros Film Awards
    (2017)

  • 12 Months Film Festival
    (2017)

  • IndustryBOOST Competition
    (2016)

  • Grand IndieWise Convention
    (2016)

Education

  • Graduate School of Directors and Writers, Sankt-Peterburg
    (2012-2013)

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