White Snail (2026)
A Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue. Their encounter unsettles her sense of body, beauty, and mortality. The fragile love story of two outsiders who turn each other’s worlds upside down and discover that they are not alone.
- Date of release
- 2026-01-23
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
Casting
- Marya Imbro — Masha
- Mikhail Senkov — Misha
- Olga Reptukh — Olga
- Andrei Sauchanka — Andrei
Interesting facts
White Snail is a 2025 German-Austrian romance film written and directed by Elsa Kremser, and Levin Peter. Starring Marya Imbro, and Mikhail Senkov, it follows Masha, a model pursuing her dream job in China, and Misha, a painter working in a morgue, in a fragile love story of two outsiders who turn each other's worlds upside down.
Production
The film directed by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter is inspired by real-life stories of non-professional actors, was shot in Belarus. It won the Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Kompagnon-Fellowship at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017 and participated at the TorinoFilmLab.
In 2021, it was selected at the TorinoFilmLab in the FeatureLab alongwith 9 other films.
In 2022, Eurimages supported the film (working title Green Parrot) with €300,000.
Principal photography began on 12 June 2023 on the location of Minsk in Belarus, and Daugavpils in Latvia.
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