Marina Aleksandrovna Razbezhkina is a graduate of the Philology Faculty of the Kazan University. She worked as a teacher in a village school, as a journalist in some mass media, and then as a scriptwriter and director of documentary films. Razbezhkina's documentaries have won prizes at prestigious national and international film festivals. Time of Harvest is Razbezhkina’s debut in full-length feature cinema. In 2007 she directed her second feature film Yar based on the same name story by Sergei Yesenin. The popular young film director Valeriya Guy Germanika considers Razbezhkina her only teacher.