Light Up!
# Light Up!

Light Up! (Russian: Жги!, romanized: Zhgi!) 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.

