Plankton Salesmen

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

Sam Klebanov

Anton Mazurov

Maria Kuvshinova

(Self (archive footage) 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))

Anton Dolin

(Self (archive footage))

Stanislav Zelvensky

(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))

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))

Terry Gilliam

(Self (archive footage))

Lars von Trier

(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))

Wim Wenders

(Self (archive footage))

Bernardo Bertolucci

(Self (archive footage))

Aki Kaurismäki

(Self (archive footage))