Plankton Salesmen

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.

Sam Klebanov

Anton Mazurov

Maria Kuvshinova

(Self and voice-over)

Anna Katchko

Alexander Kamionsky

Vasily Maslennikov

Elena Slatina

Olga Shakina

Simone Baumann

Nikolay Izmerli

Raisa Fomina

Maria Ruzgis

Anisya Kazakova

Alexey Medvedev

(Self (archive footage))

Alexandra Novozhenova

(Self (archive footage))

Stanislav Zelvensky

(Self (archive footage))

Anton Dolin

(Self (archive footage))

Andrey Plakhov

(Self (archive footage))

Andrey Zvyagintsev

(Self (archive footage))

Aleksey Balabanov

(Self (archive footage))

Nikita Mikhalkov

(Self (archive footage))

Alla Pugacheva

(Self (archive footage))

Quentin Tarantino

(Self (archive footage))

Alejandro González Iñárritu

(Self (archive footage))

George Clooney

(Self (archive footage))

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

(Self (archive footage))

Luc Dardenne

(Self (archive footage))

Lars von Trier

(Self (archive footage))

Terry Gilliam

(Self (archive footage))

David Lynch

(Self (archive footage))

Kim Ki-duk

(Self (archive footage))

Takeshi Kitano

(Self (archive footage))

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

(Self (archive footage))

Park Chan-wook

(Self (archive footage))

Wim Wenders

(Self (archive footage))

Gaspar Noé

(Self (archive footage))

Spike Lee

(Self (archive footage))

Abel Ferrara

(Self (archive footage))

Isabelle Huppert

(Self (archive footage))

Salma Hayek Pinault

(Self (archive footage))

Bernardo Bertolucci

(Self (archive footage))

Aki Kaurismäki

(Self (archive footage))