Unwanted

14-year-old Vika lives in a small provincial town in Russia’s Ural region. She picks wild berries that grow on the wetlands and helps her muther sell them in the street market. She enjoys choreography classes at school. And she has a baby that nobody should ever know about.

Cast

Vika
Anastasiya Strukova
Vika's Mother
Olga Malakhova
Nikita
Slava Baranov
Andrey
Ivan Ivashov
Nichya - Poster 1

Unwanted

Lena Lanskih

  • Fiction
Production Country / Year
Russia 2021
Language
ru. OF mit en. UT
Format
DCP, Color, 108min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
Original Title
Nichya

Director & Crew

Lena Lanskih 1

Lena Lanskih

Born in 1990 in Tyumen/Russia. Studied Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication. Studied at the Moscow School of New Cinema. Worked as a script supervisor and director’s assistant. Active as a writer and director. 

Filmography

2017 SILENT MODE, Kurzfilm

2018 TYPE 8, Kurzfilm

2019 GAMES 14+, Spielfilm 

SALKI, Kurzfilm 

2022 NICHYA/UNWANTED, Spielfilm  HOF 2022


Writer
Lena Lanskih
Ekaterina Perfilova
Director of Photography
Mikhael Weizenfeld
Set Designer
Petr Balabanov
Sound Designer
Alexey Badygov
Producer
Natalya Drozd
Sergey Selyanov