One Breath

One Breath is a 2020 Russian sports drama film directed by Elena Hazanova about the unhappy heroine, whose new hobby, full of adrenaline and dangers, helps her to take a fresh look at life and find herself in this world, the film stars Viktoriya Isakova to prepare for the role of a year engaged in freediving. The film is based on the biography of multiple champion and world freediving champion Natalia Molchanova, who founded the first internationally recognized national school of freediving (Freediving Federation) with her colleagues in Russia, has authored her own method of teaching freediving, books and films on freediving. It was theatrically released in Russia on March 5, 2020 by ProfiCinema. Plot The film tells the story of the forty-year-old Marina Gordeeva, who suffers in an unhappy marriage, and has a job that brings her no pleasure. She feels she has nothing to look forward to. She then discovers the dangerous, deadly sport of free-diving. Immersion in the underwater world, where she must face her fears, becomes an opportunity to escape from reality and, holding her breath, plunge headlong into a pool of adrenaline, thoughts and new perspectives.