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«Ilya Kabakov. Not a colorist»
Тhe artist Ilya Kabakov is preparing his first foreign installation, «Ten Persons» in the spring of 1988, in New York. This is a unique video. Kabakov still does not know what this exhibition in Feldman's Art gallery will means for him, and what role these two months will play in his personal and creative life. The camera captures not only the artist's creative twists and turns, but also deeply...
"Ulo"
with Russian subtitles with English subtitles A film about one of the most prominent artists of the second Russian avant-garde, the Estonian Ulo Sooster (1924-1970). His extraordinary personality had a great influence on the environment of Moscow nonconformist artists, revealing to them a different sense of culture. He was the first foreigner they met... Despite the years spent in the camp, Ulo’s appearance and behavior did not […]
«From the life of one village»
This is a film about the village with a poetic name Svetlana; it is two hours away from St. Petersburg. It was built more than twenty five years ago by volunteers for people with physical and mental disabilities, doomed to specialized closed-type psychoneurological institutions. Many of them couldn't put two words together before they got to the village. Тhey sat under lock and key...
«Khardzhiev. The Last Russian Futurist»
Nikolay Khardzhiev. The most prominent art expert and collector of the Russian avant-garde. The owner of rare artworks, he had a remarkable taste, understanding, intuition, and exceptional persuasiveness. An extraordinary man, he was a walking library and a keeper of treasures collected in his Moscow flat...
«Romas, Thomas and Joseph»
When writers’ family from Moscow – Lyudmila and Andrei Sergeyevs – arrived for the first time to rest in Palanga, they could not even imagine the influence of this family rest on the history of literature of the twentieth century, and that they would become a binding link, a kind of “East-West” bridge, which was built in Soviet times. In Palanga, the spouses met poet Tomas Venclova, to whom they soon introduced their friend Josepf Brodsky...
«The life and love of a fatal blond»
Alexander Godunov - premier of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, then a scandalous defector and the highest paid soloist of the leading ballet theater in America, a brilliant dancer whose inspired performance had no weaknesses. The short life of the artist flashed at such a limit of feelings, contained so many incredible events that before her the wildest fantasy of soap opera scriptwriters fades. In the biography of an ordinary boy from [...]
Photo album of Nataliуa Ryazantseva
Film by Liliya Vyugina about Natalia Ryazantseva
Photo album by Alexander Korzhakov
The former chief of security of B.N. Yeltsin tells the story of his life, showing unique photographs from a home album. Only he was allowed to film the Russian President in such an informal setting...
Photo album by Liya Akhedzhakova
Each photo of the family album of the famous Russian actress Liya Akhedzhakova is not only and not so much a reflection and fixation of the event, but also an occasion to remember and tell us about loved ones, about creativity and even about politics.
Photo album by Veronica Dolina
Veronica Dolina is a living legend of the author's song in Russia. Her unique intonation is familiar to everyone who knows the names of Vysotsky and Okudzhava. Her records were sold in millions of copies in the 1980-90s.
Photo album of Anatoly Brusilovsky
The artist Anatoly Brusilovsky is a renowned master of photography who has captured a unique gallery of portraits of figures of Russian non-conformism. Photos of the first body art session in the USSR in the artist's studio in Moscow were published on the cover of the Italian magazine Espresso in December 1969. Paintings and collages by A. Brusilovsky are in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and many private collections.
«Master of Heart»
The film is dedicated to the professional activities of Academician Vladimir Burakovsky, an outstanding cardiac surgeon, director of the Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. He was the first in the USSR to start operating on children with congenital heart defects. He developed new technologies in cardiology, created his own scientific school.
«Gennady Gudkov. The Secret Of Coffee Making»
Gennady Gudkov, State Duma deputy. He worked in the Kolomna city committee of the Komsomol, then was sent to serve in the KGB. Graduated from the counterintelligence school, reserve colonel of the FSB. After 91 he was engaged in the security business. In 1994 he was elected chairman of the People's Party of the Russian Federation. He was repeatedly elected to the State Duma.
«Ilya Evlanov. Out borders»
Ilya Evlanov was born in Kiev into the family of TV manager Mikhail Nitsberg. He was at the forefront of the creation of several thematic satellite TV channels. One of them – «Eurocinema» - became the best channel in 2011 in Russia. In the same year he began filming his first feature film as a producer. Tragically died in London in August 2011.
«Vilno Ghetto’s Secret»
(the original title – «I’m Not Afraid»)
In September, 1941 in Vilnius, hitlerites have created a ghetto at the territory of old city. Members of the Jewish administration of the ghetto led by Jacob Gens, consoling themselves and others " necessity of small victims ", agreed to carry out requirements of Germans about delivery of people on execution. The Jewish policemen sufficed the colleagues and drove them to hands of executioners...
« ParaPhrase»
A documentary about the bard Yevgeny Klyatchkin, in the form of a virtual dialogue between two friends - Yevgeny Klyatchkin and Alexander Gorodnitsky.
«Semyon Yakubov. Life navigator»
Semyon Yakubov is the permanent leader of the KAMAZ master team. Five-time winner of the Dakar Rally. Honored Master of Sports. Honored coach of Russia. He was awarded the Orders of Honor, Courage, "For Services to the Fatherland» IV degree. State Prize Laureate. The KAMAZ master team is the strongest team in the world motorsport in sports trucks class.
«Foreigner»
One of the most popular authors, he decided to leave the Soviet Union. He explained his departure by the disappointment and inconsistency of the Gorbachev perestroika and the flourishing of anti-Semitism, which the authorities did not want to fight. Evgeny Klyatchkin emigrated to Israel after a series of farewell concerts In April 1990. The departure did not solve all the problems; rather, it created new ones...
«FILM ABOUT THE PAST. Portrait of the era of workshops»
The second Russian avant-garde existed for 30 years (60-80s). Its main characteristic is a total separation from the Soviet artistic and literary aesthetics, a new word in the culture of the ХХth century. Western journalists called them «underground artists» and «unofficial art». And they have never been not only underground, but on the contrary, actively showed their work to a huge number of viewers...
«He was known only by face. The tragedy of the comedian»
(original title «Let's Live, Makarych!»)
The hero of the documentary is the actor Alexei Smirnov, beloved by many generations. He gave the impression of a careless, prosperous and cheerful person from the screen. But in life he always kept himself apart and rarely opened his soul to anyone...
«I step through Moscow. Gennady Shpalikov»
Soviet cinema owns its «New wave» to a scriptwriter Gennady Shpalikov. He was a storyteller, a poet, a mystifier. He created his own life the way he created his heroes. He reinvented the city, reinvented the 60s, created women he loved. But often nothing was left after his love but the burned ground. He put all his forces into his creations. Nothing was left for the life itself. Only weakness.
«Forest Brothers. Lithuanian Rift»
They appeared unexpectedly. They terrified supporters of the Soviet regime in Lithuania and disappeared into the forests. Even the search dogs could not find their shelters. Theн called themselves «forest brothers». The merciless struggle with them continued for ten post-war years...
«Where does my soul fly?»
This documentary is about the unique and extraordinary village with the poetic name Svetlana. There are live now 15 volunteers from various countries – Germany, USA, Swiss, England and Russia...
«Alexander Godunov. Escape into Nowhere»
In August, 1979 during tours across the United States the leading dancer of the Big theatre Alexander Godunov has asked a political asylum. His wife, ballerina Lyudmila Vlasova, has decided to return to Moscow. Americans, including, that take away it violently, have detained a start of the plane for three days. All this time Godunov was beside, in a small minibus with the blacked out glasses and as a spell repeated: «Give me my wife!». They were named by Romeo and Juliet of cold war. After runaway Godunov became more known not as the remarkable dancer with whom it undoubtedly was, and as the person, whose love became a change card in the big politics tricks.
«Harem. Women’s Part»
Harem, polygamy, oppressed woman - the first theme Europeans associate the East. It is interesting so much if there are harems in modern Arabian world? Cernainly there are. But «Нarem» as arabs understand it, there is nothing juicy or reprehensible. The harem is a female half of house, all women of family. Mother, sisters, aunts, wives...
«Why my love for you lives longer than you?..»
Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko were the most beautiful and tragic couple in Soviet cinema. Their films were banned, put on a shelf, and released in limited editions. Larisa shot only four pictures, Elem - six. Despite this, both Elem and Larisa are recognized classics of not only Soviet, but also world cinema. Shepitko and Klimov were independent values in directing, while in life they could not exist without each other. Elem helped Larisa to finish her first film and completed the last one, which she did not shoot. After her death, he never married again.
«Lady With Dangerous Reputation»
(«Ursa Major»)
Natalie Medvedeva found herself in the West аt a young age. She worked as a model and sang in Russian restaurants in Los Angeles and Paris, in the Parisian «Raspoutine». Her books began to be published in the USSR in perestroika. She return to her Motherland with her famous husband, writer Edward Limonov. Well, as one could expect, her Motherland met her prodigal child in her usual unaffectionate manner...
«Vladimir Vysotsky: «I”ll come for your souls!»
Vysotsky was threatened by the administrative machine. He could be destroyed, he could be banned.
The malady was about to sweep away his need and ability for creation. He exceeded the bounds and created his own spiritual world, natural and free.
And granted this world to us. He was born to be a winner.
