may 9 “Mosfilm” satisfied with the premiere of a restored version of the epic “Liberation” by Yuri Ozerov, consisting of five films. Their sources were in poor condition. The plans were great, wanted to show a picture of the Second World war, filmed in 1967-1971 years on the big screen, but because of the pandemic, had to release it on the Internet.
– We wanted to show a picture on the big screen – said General Director of film concern “Mosfilm” Karen Shakhnazarov – because it is a breathtaking sight. But when it will be possible? I have a suspicion that the cinemas will be the last thing open. In the best case this will happen in the fall. We are releasing on our website from 5 movies. Each of them is Autonomous. You can, for example, to see “the Storming of Berlin”, and it works as a separate work.
it was a Difficult project. The restoration was more than six months. She spent several million rubles. We’re all doing at their own expense, the state did not receive. This is not a commercial project, but a way of preserving the paintings. The digitization takes the same time as the film goes. Restoration, which we have held requires engineering solutions, expensive equipment and good specialists, which should be brought up. Each frame is cleaned. Removed noise, scratches, all that the negative is formed over the years of storage.
Strikes in the “Liberation” of the scale of the battle scenes.
– there was not in world cinema and probably never will. No computer graphics. Removed tank battles. Specially built scenery flooded the Berlin subway. In the movie “Fire arc” involving three thousand infantry, 100 tanks, 18 airplanes. In total involved 500 units of military equipment. Only the Soviet Union could do it. Yuri Ozerov created a masterpiece of world cinema from the perspective of battle scenes. I feel the difference between real and computer surveys. It’s like a good wine, 15 years old. Significantly and that made the film veterans. The lake went through the war like Yuri Slabnevich, and the artist Alexander Myagkov. I caught them.
the man restored about 100 movies, and they regularly participates in film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin. Completed work on the film “the Forty first” Gregory chuhraja. Since the work shops at the Studio suspended the work goes remotely. Already restored “Unfinished piece for mechanical piano” by Nikita Mikhalkov.
Life is increasingly shifting towards the Internet. The American film Academy has announced that on competition “Oscar” will be paintings, not having the theatrical release, but shown in the Internet. Festivals one after another canceled. The pandemic’s victims p��by Cannes were the film festivals in Karlovy vary and Locarno. They all unite on a single platform on the initiative of the festival “Tribeca” in new York for a free online show from 29 may to 7 June. Viewers will be able to make donations to the Fund for combating coronavirus. This was not to ask Karen Shakhnazarov.
– the Internet movie, and before the epidemic has become large scale. Before, when we were selling the painting abroad, the first paragraph of the contract was rolled in the cinema, and now on the Internet. The epidemic hasn’t helped. Movie on Internet platforms occupied, may be more important than the release in theatres. Apparently, this trend will intensify. The American Academy alternative today not because the cinemas in the world closed. But I think that they will still persist because of the spectacle on the big screen fascinating. Today have a home theater and you can watch the film in good quality, but for the Russian cinema remains a serious issue of piracy, in contrast to most European countries and the USA, where it is cleared. In Russia it is necessary to adopt tougher laws, otherwise the film industry will incur large losses.
Festivals are now in a difficult position. Cannes film festival postponed, and it is unclear as his fate. Its leaders don’t want to go online, and I understand them because it negates the very idea of the festival. It makes sense when there are real people, artists, filmmakers, and they represent the movies. Needs to be public, the conversations, partying, signing autographs. Modern communication is artificial. I’m not a proponent of remote interviews and conferences in which we are forced to participate. Some believe that this is a new word. If it is so, then our life will become terribly bland. If we communicate through the screen, for me this world is absolutely not acceptable. I hope we will return to a state where it will be more personal and human communication. I use a computer only at work for information, not sitting on the Internet. I have no pages in social networks and desire to be a virtual world that deprives us of human communication. It is very dangerous. In many ways the situation with the current epidemic associated with the informational edifice that surrounds us. Everything we are experiencing now, is life fun. But we will overcome. It is impossible so to live.
