Bondarchuk
The 1960s were a unique moment in history. Filmmakers around the world took the war they had recently lived through as a major subject of cinema. The new generation of auteurs have come to symbolize the post-war world, a new humanism, and a desire to build a new life. Sergei Bondarchuk is the reference point for the cinema of the time in the Soviet Union. The film is dedicated to the centenary of Sergei Bondarchuk that goes beyond the scope of the traditional biopic to form a study of a singular period in the history of world cinema.
Ilya Belov
Director
Also Directed by Ilya Belov
Fellow poets, excited ladies, the love of his life, Marina Basmanova, two psychiatric hospitals, KGB interrogations, a People's Court, prison, exile, forced emigration. All of this was Brodsky's Leningrad. The biography, which was written for, in Akhmatova's words, "our red-head". On the fourth of June 1972, when the plane carrying Brodsky took off from Pulkovo airport, this biography ended. And a new life began that almost no one in his homeland is aware of. Russia, America, Italy, Sweden, Finland - the filmmakers have traced the journey of their hero, perhaps the most well-traveled of all Russian writers. The places, that became his biography. And the people, that defined his fate.
A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced writers such as Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Sharov, Viktor Pelevin. True, so far little has been known about Sokolov itself.
Documentary about Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most prominent Russian writers.
