Yuri Stepanov

Yuri Stepanov was born in 1967. He graduated from Irkutsk Theater College. In 1988 he entered the Directing Department of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts in the workshop of Pyotr Fomenko. Now he is working in the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater.

Selected Film Credits:

1995 Head and Tail (“Oryol i Reshka”) – feature

1997 Time of Dancer (“Vremya Tantsora”) – feature

1998 Hello From Charlie the Trumpet Player (“Privet Ot Charli-Trubacha”) – feature

2000 His Wife's Diary (“Dnevnik Ego Zheny”) – feature

2002 House for the Rich (“Dom dlya Bogatykh”) – feature

2002 Minerva’s Shield (“Schit Minervy”) - feature

2002 Spartacus and Kalashnikov (“Spartak i Kalashnikov”) – feature

2002 War (“Voyna”) – feature

2002 Dagger (“Stilet”) – feature

2003 The Best City On Earth (“Luchshiy Gorod Zemli”) – feature

2003 The Stroll (“Progulka”) – feature

2003 Morning (“Utro”) – feature

2004 The Penal Battalion (“Shtrafbat”) – TV series

2005 Vanyukhin’s Children (“Deti Vanyukhina”) – TV mini-series

2005 First Under God (“Pervyy Posle Boga”) – feature

2005 Dead Man’s Bluff (“Zhmurki”) – feature

2007 Red Pearls of Love (“Krasny Zhemchug Lubvi”) – feature

2007 Cargo 200 (“Gruz 200”) – feature

Yuri Stepanov on the project:

“I liked the script right away. I talked a lot with the director and we rehearsed. Mikhail (the director) was absolutely infected by this story. I understood that the only cure for him was to finish it. And he infected me with this virus.”

At first I couldn’t understand, why did we have to travel so far? But when I found myself in Kazakhstan next to this house in the steppe I no longer had any questions.”

“There you converse with the wind. The sun is your friend and your enemy. And that’s it. That’s all you need.”

About Fyodor Abramovitch:

“Almost all of my family are doctors. My sister is a leading cardiologist. I listened to her stories and tried to understand how these people live. You know, some say that doctors interfere with God’s business but some say that they walk next to God. I think the latter opinion is right.”

“In a way, Fyodor Abramovitch is also ill. He fell into depression from not being able to practice. And that’s where his stress and even psychosis are coming from. To some extent he allowed himself to degrade. Why it happened is a different question. He became disappointed in the world.”

“When he comes to Mitya and starts talking about meeting God, we understand that he thinks it’s possible and he knows something about it. But his despair won’t allow him to understand something truly important.”

About Wild Field:

“A field is a field, it’s just an element. People make it wild.”