My Lizochek. (2025)
My Lizochek. (2025)
Overview
My Lizochek (2025) is a 40-minute Russian historical drama short film written and directed by Lyudmila Sadovnikova, starring Nikolay Kovalevsky as Kolya Zvansky and Viktoria Gracheva. The story centers on a Moscow schoolboy whose everyday life disrupts when his father is arrested as an enemy of the people, resulting in ostracism from friends, teachers, and neighbors.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Not Rated
Overview
My Lizochek (2025) is a 40-minute Russian historical drama short film written and directed by Lyudmila Sadovnikova, starring Nikolay Kovalevsky as Kolya Zvansky and Viktoria Gracheva. The story centers on a Moscow schoolboy whose everyday life disrupts when his father is arrested as an enemy of the people, resulting in ostracism from friends, teachers, and neighbors.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Primary
The film examines the human cost of Stalinist purges through a child's perspective, where arbitrary arrest triggers widespread abandonment and coercion. This depiction of systemic oppression and its erosion of personal bonds underscores an anti-authoritarian stance.
The film employs traditional casting with white Russian actors in period roles without diverse representation. Its narrative examines historical repression in Stalinist Russia through a family's ordeal, framing traditional identities neutrally amid state persecution, with incidental recognition for female elements but no central DEI themes.
Secondary
The film depicts a traditional nuclear family as the foundation of the protagonist's ordinary childhood, portraying its disruption by political arrest as a profound tragedy that underscores the importance of familial bonds and loyalty despite societal pressure to disown the father.
The film depicts a story of familial persecution and social isolation during a repressive era, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The story examines a child's experience of family persecution and social rejection during Soviet repression, without any elements related to transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film depicts original characters, including two boys in a Soviet orphanage, without drawing from source material that establishes prior genders for recasting.
My Lizochek features original fictional characters set in Soviet-era Moscow, with no adaptation from source material or portrayal of historical figures that establish prior racial baselines, yielding no race swaps.