2024-01-02 12:10:50
Russian cinema will be seen in Rotterdam
On January 25, the 52nd Rotterdam International Film Festival will open, where they traditionally present the first and second films of young directors from different countries. The Russian film “Ashes and Dolomite” by Toma Selivanova, a graduate of the Moscow School of New Cinema, will take part in the “Bright Future” section. In Rotterdam she has already presented her short film “Cow”. Her new project was supported by the Dutch Hubert Bals Foundation, which provides grants to emerging talented directors from around the world who make auteur films.
“Ashes and Dolomite” – road movie. His characters – film director Dina and German sound designer Johan, whose grandfather disappeared during World War II in the Gulag – travel around Russia, to the places where Soviet labor camps were located and victims of political repression were serving their sentences. A feeling of love will arise between the heroes, but fate, apparently, will separate them. This is partly an autobiographical film made at the intersection of documentary and fiction films. The role of Dina was played by Toma Selivanova.
Documentary maker and artist Liliya Filina will present her short film “Magic and Propaganda” in Rotterdam. Her previous film was about activists of “Putin’s Squads” who independently unite to defend their beliefs.
In the “Big Screen” section, where films are judged by a jury of spectators, and then the winner receives support in the Dutch box office, “Steppenwolf” by Kazakh director Adilkhan Erzhanov is participating. The main roles in his film were played by Berik Aitzhanov and Russian actor Azamat Nigmanov. He has already starred in Erzhanov’s “Storm”. Uzbekistan is represented by the film “Bull’s Heart” by a graduate of the Moscow School of New Cinema Margarita Bagdasaryan, based on the script by Mikhail Borodin, whose film “Products 24” was shown around the world. Mikhail also became the producer of “Bull’s Heart”.
Dostoevsky and Scorsese at the Berlinale
The 74th Berlin Film Festival will open on February 15. Its jury will be headed by Mexican-born Kenyan actress, producer and director, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o. Women continue to lead the way in the film industry. Tricia Tuttle, who headed the London Film Festival, will become the new director of the Berlinale from April 2024. The president of the Cannes jury in 2024 will be the representative of American independent cinema, actress and director Greta Gerving, who directed the film “Barbie.”
President of the Berlinale 2024 jury Lupita Nyong’o. Press service of the Berlin Film Festival
The Berlinale’s honorary Golden Bear for outstanding film achievements will be given to the classic of world cinema, American director Martin Scorsese. Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian commented on the choice of the laureate: “For those who consider cinema to be the art of shaping history – personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unrivaled role model.”
The Forum program will show “The Silence of Mary” by Latvian director Davis Simanis about the Latvian-German theater and silent film actress Maria Leiko. A graduate of the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, she appeared on the stage of German theaters, worked in Max Reinhardt’s troupe, and starred with the classic German cinema Friedrich Murnau. In 1933 she returned to Latvia after Hitler came to power in Germany. Her daughter died in Moscow in 1935, and Maria went there to visit her orphaned granddaughter. She was arrested in 1937 as an agent of foreign imperialism for counter-revolutionary activities, and in 1938 she was shot in Butovo. The fate of her granddaughter Nora is unknown. Maria Leiko was rehabilitated in 1958. The film tells about the last years of the actress’s life.
The main role was played by Olga Shepitskaya, who starred in the famous Soviet film “My Name is Harlequin”, “Days of Our Lives” and “The Gulf Stream over the Iceberg” by Evgeniy Pashkevich, in the film “The Song That Causes Terror” by the Latvian classic Janis Streich, and “The Moth” by Konstantin Khudyakov . In addition to professional actors, “The Silence of Mary” featured residents of Daugavpils.
The Berlinale has already announced the first participants in the Berlinale Special section. Among them are “Cuckoo” by German director Tilman Singer, “Seven Veils” by Canadian director of Armenian origin Atom Egoyan, “Being Nowhere” by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, as well as the Italian series “Dostoevsky” by the brothers Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo. In this case, we are not talking about Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The hero of the film is detective Enzo, played by Filippo Timi, who is looking for a serial killer nicknamed Dostoevsky.
Pushkin – Yura Borisov, Onegin – Viktor Dobronravov, Tatyana – Liza Moryak
Finally, Mikhail Lokshin’s time-stretched film adaptation of Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” with Evgeny Tsyganov in the role of the Master and Yulia Snigir in the role of Margarita will see the light. It was supposed to be released in 2022. The authors abandoned the name “Woland”. He was played by German actor August Diehl.
In 2024, it will be 225 years since the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. “Onegin” by Sarik Andreasyan will be released by the date. Before starting work, the director reviewed all existing film adaptations of the novel in verse, including the revolutionary ones.
The textbook work was adapted for cinema by Sarik Andreasyan and screenwriter Alexey Gravitsky, who worked on “Unforgiven”, “Chekatilo”, “In the Sun, Along the Rows of Corn”. They now have a narrator who will speak directly to the audience from time to time. He was played by Vladimir Vdovichenkov. There will be dreams of Tatiana and Evgeniy in the film. The heroes were aged, adding 10-15 years to them. This decision has nothing to do with the age of the actors. Sarik Andreasyan refers to his own perception of history and the feelings that Pushkin’s heroes experience. According to him, people used to live less and age earlier. He didn’t want to make the heroes 25 years old.
The role of Onegin is played by 40-year-old Viktor Dobronravov, who has already played Onegin on the Vakhtangov stage in the play by Rimas Tuminas. According to the actor, his on-screen character is very different from his stage image. “For me, this is a new step forward in knowledge and in the search for this image,” says Victor. Vladimir Lensky will be played by Denis Prytkov, familiar to viewers from the TV series “Kapelnik”. In the role of Tatyana Larina we will see Sarik Andreasyan’s wife Lisa Moryak. The younger Olga will be played by a graduate of the Yaroslavl Theater Institute Tatyana Sabinova, and the mother of the Larin sisters will be played by Alena Khmelnitskaya. Vladimir Vdovichenkov got the role of the narrator, who appears in the frame and even rides in a carriage with Onegin.
Viktor Dobronravov as Evgeny Onegin. Photo courtesy of the film crew
“Onegin” was filmed in St. Petersburg and its suburbs, in those places where Pushkin set foot. There will be no computer graphics; the era is being restored materially and down to the smallest detail. The characters will move from poetic lines to prose.
Musical “Prophet” The Story of Alexander Pushkin” by Felix Umarov, where Yura Borisov will sing for the “sun of Russian poetry”, will be released later than originally scheduled – in the winter of 2025. Young actor Kai Goetz will play Pushkin during his lyceum years. Anya Chipovskaya stars as Countess Elizaveta Vorontsova. Ilya Vinogorsky will play Ivan Pushchin, Ilya Lyubimov – Vasily Zhukovsky, Sergey Gilev – Alexander Benkendorf. French actor Florian Desbiendras has been invited to play the role of Georges Dantes. The choreographer for the project is Oleg Glushkov, whose background includes the films “Hipsters,” “Thaw,” and “Actresses.”
Filming took place in the Yusupov, Marble and Stroganov palaces in St. Petersburg, the museum-apartment of A.S. Pushkin on the Moika, the library of the Bestuzhev courses, the Palace stables of Peterhof, in the imperial park of Pavlovsk. Filming will continue until February.
Emir Kusturica is passionate about “Dead Souls” and three women
The tireless Serbian director Emir Kusturica appears in news reports of Russian cinema every now and then, but all his intentions more often remain at the level of intention. A year ago, he agreed to become president of the International Film Debut Festival “Spirit of Fire” in Khanty-Mansiysk, but did not come. Many thought he had changed his mind, but Kusturica sent a video of a broken leg from a hospital room. Whether he will appear in March on “Spirit of Fire” is unknown. Kusturica has already announced several times his intentions to work on Russian material, but things never went beyond words. Most recently, he announced that he was ready to film the novel “Laurel” by Evgeny Vodolazkin. And now a new idea is on the way – a film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”. Kusturica plans to film in Russia. There is even a working title for the film – “Three Women and Dead Souls.”
Emir has been approaching Gogol for a long time. In his interviews, there are no, no, but mentions of the works that captivated him. This is both “Sorochinskaya Fair” and “The Story of How Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich Quarreled.” The fact that “Dead Souls” really intrigues him is evidenced by the title of Kusturica’s new book, “When Dead Souls March,” where he touches on contemporary events in Serbia and Ukraine, writes about the threat to humanity posed by capitalism as such, and about the war between West and East , Hollywood cinema.
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