Cannes film festival this year was canceled because of a pandemic, therefore, usually accompanying the Marché du Film takes place independently and for the first time in an online format. The designs of our Directors present at a virtual stand of Russia so that they could meet foreign colleagues.
on the first day showed the movie “Land of Elsa”, where after a long break appeared one of the most beautiful women of the Soviet cinema Irina Pechernikova, familiar to all for the film “Live till Monday”.
“Land of Elsa” – the film adaptation of the play of the Ural playwright Yaroslava Pulinovich. Picked her up a student of Marlena hutsieva Julia Kolesnik. In 2006, her film “South Caledonia” participated in the contest “Kinotavr” and drew the attention of the beautiful acting.
Now Julia took the story of the love of those who are over 70. Starring the stars of the Soviet cinema Veniamin Smekhov and Irina Pechernikova, actively starred in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Many loved her in the movie “Live till Monday” Stanislav Rostotsky, where her partner was Vyacheslav Tikhonov, “First love” Basil Horde in Turgenev, “Cities and years” by Alexander Zarkhi, “Pages magazine Pechorin” by Anatoly Efros, where she played Princess Mary, and the role of Pechorin’s starred by Oleg Dal. In the 1990s, she appeared only once in Rustam Hamdamova “Anna Karamazoff” in the 2000s, he participated in several TV series. And then disappeared somewhere. What only hearings did not go around her name. A lot about Irina Pechernikova later wrote in his autobiography. And now finally back in the movie.
In may last year, “Land of Elsa” was filmed in the Altai – Barnaul and in one of the villages where the heroine lives is an ethnic German, will not leave for its limits. Veniamin Smekhov played the role of the geographer in retirement. Having met each other, elderly people dream to go in search of their land, what inspires their loved ones, with your ideas about well-being.
the program of the film market, stated video meetings, online discussion, presentations ready and being born of the paintings, for which the actual search for foreign partners.
22 Jun presented “the Blockade diary” by Andrei Zaitsev, based on the memoirs of poet Olga Bergholz and other blockade “the Blockade book” by Daniil Granin. We have pictures no one has seen, but already showing the trailer caused a wave of indignation on the part of those who are willing to protest for any reason. Immediately hooked up the blockade, did so, that they resented what they saw and denounced the authors of the film in the wrong. Evaluation of foreign audiences can be quite different and even unexpected. Remember the “Cornstalk” Cantemir Balagula, who had success in Europe, and we caused a stream of criticism.
“palm”, which was filmed by son Alexander Domogarova – alexander Domogarov Jr., based on real events. In the 1970s in the Moscow airport “Vnukovo” dog for several years waiting for the return of the master, which then flew away. The picture is created in two versions. One is designed for domestic and the second for the Japanese audience. It will be called “the history of the Akita and Palms”. Our Richard Gere was Alexander Domogarov senior. Many saw the movie “Hachiko”, also based on real events that occurred in Japan. There’s a Professor, played by Gere, returning home from work, I saw on the station dog, who then met him every day. “Palm” was partially filmed on one of the Japanese Islands.
Russian films about the sport that we put on stream, and that little encouraging artistic discoveries, richly represented in the virtual Cannes. “Running” by Andrey Zagidullin will talk about the champion on track and field athletics Sergey Borozdin, who after a car accident is forced to forget about the great sport. But misfortune led to an unusual gift. Runner can see events from the past.
TV Presenter and Director Alexey Pimanov made “Eleven silent men” about the Soviet players, who arrived in 1945 in the UK to enter the field with the representatives of the legendary English clubs. “Neutral” Maksim Sveshnikov actors Love Aksenova and Egor Koreshkov in the main roles, tells the story of captain women’s soccer team, is on the verge of closing. You have to enlist the help of childhood friends, which had a chance to play football in high school.
Ivan Tverdovskiy, Jr., tells in the pages of “MK” about his new project Conference, and will present it at Cannes. He talks about the events connected with capture of hostages on performance “Nord-OST”. The theme of terrorism and its consequences – one of the most popular in the world, besides the chamber decided, as an echo of the terrible events in the lives of individual heroes.
June 25 you can see the latest work of Yuri Bykov’s “the Watchman” that caused the most contradictory statements of the critics, considered as belonging in the category of creative failures. But it is likely that foreigners will see in it something of their own. “Fool” Bykov became very popular in the world, and in France he is more known than in Russia.
Timur Bekmambetov is involved with the projects, on which work still continues. It is said to be the world’s first vertical blockbuster “Devyatayev” (although in this area there are many filmmakers, particularly in Italy, which started to submit their projects much sooner).
the Film tells of a Soviet pilot Mikhail Devyataeva, was captured and then escaped from there in a stolen plane. Screenlife-trillR “Want to game” magic of Christmas even in the work. It’s about a harmless game in social networks, which eventually starts to threaten the child’s life. Alexey Uchitel will present an unfinished film about the death of Viktor Tsoi. In August marks 30 years since his death in an accident.
