Mikhail Segal
1974 (50 лет)Studied at the director’s faculty of the Film Institute VGIK, made music clips for the groups Bi-2, Spleen, Nogu Svelo! [Twisted Leg], Nochnye Snaipery [Night Snipers], Kasta, Mashina Vremeni [Time Machine], etc. Published two collections of prose. In 2006 at XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival, Mikhail presented his first full-length film "Franz+Polina" and got recognition at many Russian and international festivals (in Germany, France, Poland, Canada, China, and other countries). In 2010, "AST" publishing house published Mikhail's first book of prose "Youth" containing a story of the same name and a collection of short novels. In 2011, Segal shot a short film "Fasteners Solutions" which was based on one of his novels, and the film won the short-film nomination at "Kinotavr" Film Festival. The same summer, 3 other novels were shot, and a full-length movie «Short Stories» that got a widespread fame later on, was presented at the next 2012 "Kinotavr". In 2014, Mikhail Segal presented his third full-length movie "A Film About Alexeev". In 2018, the movie «Elephants Can Play Football» and the book "Handwriting" were released. In 2020 his film "Deeper!" was a participant of Sochi Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr".
Short Stories
Mikhail Segal
Andrey Merzlikin, Igor Ugolnikov
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.
Short Stories
Кино про Алексеева
Mikhail Segal
Aleksandr Zbruev, Aleksey Kapitonov
The film is a journey through the amazing life of Alekseyev. He drank tea with Tarkovsky, got into the KGB because of Gagarin, competed with Kalashnikov and Vysotsky. One day, he will learn more about himself than he knew and could have imagined: about his talent, about the mark that he left in the destinies of other people. You can live your life again if someone loves you.
The Movie about Alekseev
Глубже!
Mikhail Segal
Aleksandr Pal, Lyubov Aksyonova
In this satyrical story, a rather unlucky young theater director finds himself without work and means of subsistence. To somehow make ends meet, on the advice of a friend he decides to become a director of pornographic films, using creativity and psychological aspect in his work...
Deeper!
Мир Крепежа
Mikhail Segal
Andrey Petrov, Andrey Merzlikin
Olya and Mitya love each other very much and do not want to live life like "ordinary people". The gray reality and the prospect of turning into ordinary people frightens them. The future is poorly predicted. But why predict something that can be done? Professionals are already rushing to help, everything will be organized.
The World Of Fasteners
Какие наши действия?
Mikhail Segal
Maksim Gromov, Konstantin Novikov
Everything that happens could have happened differently. And that's the beauty of life. This is what the film is about. This is a story in which a series of absurd, random events leads the heroine to a romantic meeting. Or not?
What Do We Do?
