Radda Novikova
Radda Vyacheslavovna Novikova (Russian: Радда Вячеславовна Новикова) is a Russian film and television director (born on 25 October 1974). Novikova is well known for directing comedy television series Girls with Makarov, Interns, Two Fathers, Two Sons.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Radda Novikova received her directing education in Moscow - in 1994 she graduated from the directing department of the VGIK.
In 2003 she directed the two-part television film Story of the Spring Call.[2]
From 2004 to 2006 she was the director of Inexplicable, yet a Fact (TNT), Out of Law (Channel One), Love Stories (for Channel One), Price of Love, Affair (for TNT).[2]
In 2011 Novikova joined the directing team of the fourth season of medical sitcom Interns. The long-running series starred Ivan Okhlobystin as the cynical chief of staff. She directed the series until the ninth season.
Radda Novikova started working on the sitcom television series Two Fathers, Two Sons starring Dmitry Nagiyev in 2012.
In 2018 she directed comedic police procedural TV series Cop starring Kirill Zaytsev. The series was about an American police officer who comes to Russia to work.[3]
In 2019 Novikova directed the short film Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019 - loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The screenplay was written by Aleksandr Tsypkin.[4] The following year she directed another short film based on a Tsypkin story, Moscow Hill. It starred Anatoliy Beliy, Viktoriya Tolstoganova and Fedor Bondarchuk.[5]
In 2020 Novikova began directing comedy webseries Notes of the Helvetia Hotelier for Okko streaming platform. The series lasted for two seasons.[6][5]
In 2022 Novikova started directing the second season of Girls with Makarov, a police procedural sitcom starring Pavel Maykov, she directed the whole series until the final fifth season.
Awards
[edit]Radda Novikova's Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019 received Best Music Video award at the Prague Independent Film Festival,[7][8] and also received Best Short Film and Best Supporting Actor (Konstantin Khabensky) awards at the Vienna Independent Film Festival in 2019.[9][10]
Filmography
[edit]TV
[edit]- Girls with Makarov (2022-present)
- Triada (2021)
- Cop (2019)
- Secretary (2018)
- Two Fathers, Two Sons (2013)
- Interns (2011-2013)
- The Xe Men (2011)
Webseries
[edit]- Notes of the Helvetia Hotelier (2020-present)
Feature films
[edit]- Story of the Spring Call (2003)
Short films
[edit]- Moscow Hill (2021)
- Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019 (2019)
References
[edit]- ^ "Радда Новикова". VokugTV.
- ^ a b "Stardust Agency - Radda Novikova".
- ^ "Жил-был коп, полицейский лоб". Komsomolskaya Pravda.
- ^ "«Хабенский играл со сломанными ребрами»: как снимали клип Гребенщикова о новой Анне Карениной". Teleprogramma.
- ^ a b "Interview with Radda Novikova". Indie Cinema Magazine. October 2020.
- ^ Kozma Lokhankin. "Вышел трейлер второго сезона сериала "Записки отельера. Гельвеция"".
- ^ "Клип на песню Бориса Гребенщикова наградили на кинофестивале в Праге" [Clip for Boris Grebenschikov song awarded at a film festival in Prague]. RIA Novosti.
- ^ "Клип Гребенщикова получил награду на кинофестивале" [Grebenschikov clip received a film festival award]. sibnet.
- ^ ""Анна Каренина" Гребенщикова стала новой иконой феминизма!" [Anna Karenina of Grebenschikov became a new icon of feminism!]. Cosmopolitan Russia.
- ^ "Хабенского наградили в Вене за роль машиниста в фильме про Каренину" [Khabensky awarded in Vienna for the role of train driver in a film about Karenina]. RIA Novosti.