Mark Kvitko
Film director and film writer
Works:
Promises
2025, United States, France, India
Directed by Mark Kvitko, written by Polina Legostaeva, Elizaveta Solomina, Philipp Kvitko (first text), Mark Kvitko — 50 minutes
A French film director in New York struggles to finish his work on a contract, relapsing into memory of his marriage in France.
Stars: Devin Neff, Liya Kalindovskaya, Alexander Malakhov, Julien Debaker
You Can Not Be Me. A Dream
2024, United States
Directed and written by Mark Kvitko — 3 minutes
A young man enters his apartment, where he sees himself dead on the bed. The character gets to contemplate this horrific and inevitable fact.
Starring Ethan Sumner
Milk Grass
2024, Russia
Directed by Mark Kvitko, written by Mark Kvitko, Polina Legostaeva — 27 minutes
A Russian emigrant in Berlin, who moved out from Russia 10 years before due to war and family issues, gets recurring dreams of his father and decides to return. Remembering the day of his mother’s death, he thinks of milk grass, the phenomenon of grass in the late fall.
Stars: Denis Sekirin, Oleg Mazurov, Arseniy Mytsyk
Crime And Punishment
2022, Russia
Directed by Mark Kvitko — 2 minutes
Raskolnikov, a young, impoverished, and arrogant man, decides to kill an elderly pawnbroker in order to use her money to help others, believing he is an extraordinary person who can use evil means to achieve good ends. Shot in the actual locations of the Dostoyevsky’s novel in Saint Petersburg.
Stars: Mark Kvitko, Polina Tarnavskaya
Whiskey
2021, Russia
Directed by Mark Kvitko, written by Ivan Uvarov — 10 minutes
A man decides to kill himself, diagnosed with a terminal illness. A sudden savior for him is a woman he meets on the roof, also in pain and on the verge.
Stars: Denis Sekirin, Liya Kalindovskaya
Somnambulist
2020, Russia
Directed by Mark Kvitko, written by Vadim Vetrov — 17 minutes
Poor and serving a probation, a man agrees to test a new drug to solve his financial difficulties. Not expecting a trick from his old friend, he finds himself in a situation that goes beyond his reality, unstoppable, ever-ending pain.
Stars: Denis Sekirin, Alexander Osinnen, Liya Kalindovskaya
Poison
March 9 2020, Russia
Directed by Mark Kvitko, written by Vadim Vetrov — 3 minutes
A man gets in a set of tragic events with his girlfriend selling drugs, and the reality of his life so miserable that he can not keep watching this stuff happening around him.
Stars: Denis Sekirin
The Voodoo Dance
2019, Russia
Directed by Mark Kvitko, written by Vadim Vetrov — 16 minutes
Teenagers go out in the forest and find a cabin in the night. They get lost and become angry at each other, spilling more and more chaos outside, followed by a tragic, stupid death of one of the boys.
Stars: Pavel Zhelobkovich, Grigorii Pinkhasik, Kirill
Vorobyev