Light Up! () is a 2017 Russian musical drama film directed and written by Kirill Pletnyov. The film took part in the main competitive program of the film festival Kinotavr 2017.
Plot
The female colony supervisor has the opportunity to participate in the main Russian music show. And the singer who is a prisoner of the colony will help her with this.
Cast
Viktoriya Isakova as Masha Star
Inga Strelkova-Oboldina as Alevtina
Vladimir Ilyin as Ivanych
Tatyana Dogileva as Yelena Sysoeva
Anna Ukolova as Vera
Aleksey Shevchenkov as Sergey
Daniil Steklov as Mazhor
Aleksandra Bortich as Zhenya, Sysoeva's daughter
Yekaterina Ageeva as Shurka
Olga Buzova as cameo
Production
The script is based on the true story of British singer Sam Bailey, the winner of the 10th season of musical TV show The X Factor (2013), who worked as a warden in a men's prison.
The main role in the script written by Pletnyov specifically for the actress Inga Oboldina, who starred in his short film Nastya. The second main female role was written for Ksenia Rappoport, but played it in the end Viktoria Isakova. Both Actresses sing with their voices, with the exception of Opera arias.