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Zoology

'Zoology' Is Much More Than The "Woman With A Tail Movie

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  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Ivan I. Tverdovsky
  • Russia, France, Germany 2016
  • 87 minutes
  • Russian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha lives a life of quiet desperation with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day… she grows a tail and turns her life around.
Filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky deftly inserts a fantastic motif into a realistically structured story, creating a modern fable that speaks of loneliness, otherness, fear, and also of the courage to be different.
Filmography: Corrections Class (2014), Space Dog (2013, doc), Pianism (2012, doc), As If Waiting for a Bus (2009, doc).


  • Director Ivan I. Tverdovsky
  • Production Natalia Mokritskaya, Mila Rozanova, Uliana Savelieva
  • Script Ivan I. Tverdovsky
  • Cinematography Alexander Mikeladze
  • Editing Ivan I. Tverdovsky, Vincent Assman
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary (Special Jury Prize), Kinotavr (Best Actress Award, Critics Prize)
  • Actors Natalia Pavlenkova, Dmitri Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko
  • Source New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw

Zoology