Pavel Sanaev is a writer, screenwriter, and film director. His novel Bury Me Behind the Baseboard became a bestseller and topped the list of "25 Books that Inspired the World, 1989-2014" by the magazine World Literature Today. He made four movies that were box office successes, received top awards at international film festivals, and were purchased for global distribution.
Unique traits: Audiophile
HAFFKINE Budget: $30M+ | Drama ⋄ Biography An epic historical drama about the famous Jewish scientist who created the world's first cholera and plague vaccines. A journey of a great man, from pure materialism to faith in God, through hard work in France, self-sacrifice in India, a moral feat in the First World War, and a great discovery on the eve of his years, vanished in the largest aeronautical disaster of the first third of the 20th century.
THE LAST WEEKEND Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Crime An immature young man has to grow up fast when he falls in love with the wrong girl, who uses him as a pawn in a murder plot that presumes his death. Fate chooses to kill a gangster’s son instead of him, and bodies pile up around the getaway car carrying a dead body in the trunk.