Tzarevna Scaling by Uldus Bakhtiozin

Team credits

Director: Uldus Bakhtiozina 

Executive Producers: Maria Pavlova, Anastasia Prasolova 

Story by Uldus Bakhtiozina

Direction of Photography: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Mikhael Znakov

Camera: Mikhael Znakov 

Production Design: Uldus Bakhtiozina 

Sound Engineers: Aleksandr Demianov, Veniamin Wolfsson

Film Editor: Uldus Bakhtiozina

Casting Director: Feodossy Chatriyen Bakhtiozin 

Make-Up Artist: Tamara Yavorskaya 

Costume Designer: Uldus Bakhtiozina 

Choreographer: Vladimir Varnava 

Make-Up Artist’s Assistants: Vera Kurovskaya, Bronislava Arnoldovna, Yekaterina Gracheva, Anna Kizilova, Nadezhda Burlakova 

Costume Designer Assistants: Irina Sliva, Alevtina Matveichuk, Saniyat Atabiyeva, Margarita Chuy, Amalia Almayeva 

3D design: DimaFlood 

Visual Effect Artist: Daniil Borisovsky

English Adaptation: Dmitry Pashkevich

Main characters/actors : Alina Korol, Victoria Lisovskaya, Valentina Yasen, Aleksandra Kusotskaya, Albina Berens, Seraphima Soloviova, Xenia Popova-Pendereckaya, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Adelia Severinova, Maria Pavlova, Yekaterina Kasatkina and many others

About the project

In her feature film debut Uldus Bakhtiozina brings the campy, saturated aesthetic fingerprint of her artwork to a full-fledged narrative. One central to Tzarevna Scaling is that of trial and transformation that the quest to overcome uncertainty contains. 

A fish van attendant named Polina Schukina is struggling through tough times when a peculiar babushka approaches her stall looking to feed her cats. The treats are served back with a journey into the World of Tzareven – the graceful female crown characters of Russian folk tales – that turns out a place ruled by bureaucracy and its long winding corridors are crowded with young women hoping to find ‘tzarevenness’ within themselves. Polina, too, sets to discover what it takes to be a Tzarevna and learn the tricks of ‘the highly competitive profession’.

An actual revision of the folk tale film genre that is ever a cornerstone of the Russian cinematic lineage, Tzarevna Scaling is packed with grotesque juxtapositions of the fantastical and the trivial, the traditional and the marginal, the dramatic and the utterly funny. Vivid characters and singular setting of the picture are charged with acute satire on social reality that the millennial generation of Russians face in the lingering shade of the Soviet past, adding whole dimensions to the work that otherwise is a reflectional and very personal statement by Uldus.

Uldus Bakhtiozina, a fisherman’s daughter, would like to dedicate this work to her father.

Bio

Leningrad born artist and film director Uldus Bakhtiozina coming from the family with mixed religions and nationalities, expressing her family background through her artistic works. In October 2014, she was named one of the 100 women changing the world for the better by the BBC. In March 2017 she was a finalist in the Laguna Art Prize. She has also became first Russian TED speaker in 2014 and delivered two TED talks (2014 and 2017) about stereotypes in Russia and about costume and photography. They have been viewed over two million times. In July 2019 her short fashion film, One Day of Summer, had its premiere at La Jolla Fashion Film Festival and was nominated for six awards including Best Filmmaking. Vogue Italy named her Best Fashion Photographer at PhotoVogue. Uldus is a Gucci Beauty Ambassador and created a series of photographs for their perfume, The Alchemist’s Garden. Uldus has had work exhibited in Russia, England, Germany, Canada, Hong Kong, Italy and the United States. Her works are included in permanent exhibitions at the Ruya Foundation of Contemporary Art in Iraq and the Faberge Museum in St Petersburg. She is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, London. In the 2019/20 Season Uldus made her debut at Royal Opera House as costume and make-up designer and style supervisor for Aisha and Abhaya, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Rambert.

In 2020 she has completed her work as a film director, script writer, costume designer and producer for her feature film debut Tzarevna Scaling.

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