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"There is no war in the film about war"(Alexander Sokurov) |
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In 1859 Chechnya became a part of Russia. Since 1920 it became a part of Highland autonomous republic, since 1936 a member of the Chechen-Ingush republic. In 1994 – deportation of the 500 000 Chechens and Ingushes citizens in Kazakhstan and Centr |
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The Sun (Solntse) |
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Alexander Sokurov"s The Sun (Solntse), the third film in his planned tetralogy about the downfall of powerful leaders/tyrants, details the life of Emperor Hirohito in the days following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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| Berlinale Diary |
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The war is over |
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The war is over. Much of Japan is a smoking ruin. As U.S. forces roll into a flattened Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito—considered by the Japanese to be a divine being, a descendant of the Sun God—putters |
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| Tod Booth |
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Gorbachev’s Backing Fails to Push Russian Film to Berlin Festival |
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The head of the Berlin International Film Festival refused to screen a Russian movie highlighting the threat posed by climate change despite a direct plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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| MosNews, 16.02.2007 |
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Ballooning prod'n costs spur need for outside coin |
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| A new wave of local product vying for screens and dramatically rising prices for TV ads are driving up the release costs of bigger indie product in Russia. These are two of the key problems facing Russian buyers headed to the America |
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In his new film ... |
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...director Konstantin Lopushansky has once again chosen to speak to his audience about the state of world today
in the language of a sweeping philosophical fable, this time disguised as science fiction, what today is called a &ldq |
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| Olga Surkova, 2006 |
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Ugly Swans is a serious film ... |
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Ugly Swans is a serious film cloaked in the genre of science fiction thriller, but made in the Russian tradition.
His image of contemporary hell comes from a novel by the Strugatsky brothers.
This hell is a ghost city w |
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| Andrei Plakhov, Kommersant, 2006 |
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“Art: The territory of Heightened Nobility” |
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The special atmosphere of the movie ... |
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| Kultura, Svetlana Khokhryakova |
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“Konstantin Lopushansky Imparts Skepticism to the Strugatskys” |
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… Lopushansky follows the novel’s lead. He doesn’t just scare the viewers with an invasion of aliens,
but like the director Andrei Tarkovsky, he raises existential questions.
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| Viktor Matizen, Novye Izvestiya, October 2006 |
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The End Is Upon Us |
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Konstantin Lopushansky"s "The Ugly Swans" is, in the best art-house tradition, a puzzle of a film -- some may find it visionary, others infuriating. Based on a 1960s novel by the the Strugatsky brothers, a popular du |
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| Moscow Times, by Tom Birchenough |
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| The Golden Eagle |
8 series TV film "Crime and Punishment" produced by Andrey Sigle and Dmitry Svetozarov became a nominee of the "Golden Eagle" Award. |
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| The week of Russian Cinema in Costa Rica |
The week of Russian Cinema in Costa Rica took place in San Hose (the capital of Costa Rika) 5 -12 November. Proline-film studio presented there Alexander Sokurov"s film "Alexandra" that had great success.
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| “The Orchard” at Arsenals |
| “The Orchard” by Sergey Ovcharov was screened during the closing night of Riga International Film Forum Arsenals. |
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| "The Orchard" is the winner of "Amur Autumn" |
Anna Vartanian who played the main role in "The Orchard" won the prize as "The best actress" at the 4th Festival "Amur Autumn" in Blagoveschensk 14-28 September |
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