ON THE EDGE OF CHILDHOOD

To provide food for herself and her younger sister in the siege Leningrad and to avoidgetting to an orphanage like homeless children, young Tamara decided to take a jobat the post office. However, to get the job, she should first prove herself: deliverfive letters to five addresses, despite hunger and cold. Tamara soon realized howimportant this job was and how each letter could change the recipient’s life.

Director: VLADIMIR ZAKHARENKO

Screenwriter: VLADIMIR ZAKHARENKO

Producer: IVAN BOLOTNIKOV, NADEZHDA ANDRYUSCHENKO

Cinematographer: ANTON GROMOV

Production Designer: MAXIM MALEEV, SERGEY ZAIKOV, ALEXEI PADERIN

Cast: AGNIA VOROBYOVA, GRIGORY CHABAN, ANZHELIKA NEVOLINA, SVETLANA CHUIKINA, KONSTANTIN ODINTSOV, AGLAYA AGAFONOVA, YURI ITSKOV, OKSANA BAZILEVICH, EKATERINA TARASOVA

Russia

2026

100 min.

Director: VLADIMIR ZAKHARENKO

In 2016 he graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Film and Television, specializing in fiction film and TV directing (workshop of S.Snezhkin and M.Bychkova). His filmography also includes “A la Tarkovsky” (2014, short), “Alone” (2016, short), and “Sergey Snezhkin’s Workshop, or There Are Many Ways to Climb to the Moon” (2024, doc.). He co-wrote the screenplay for the future film “Hurray! Vacations!” (2016), which was widely released. “On the Edge of Childhood” is his feature directorial debut.