Among the headliners of the starting "Kinotavra" - a double chronicle about Brandov and Balabanov

The Russian film industry, like the world, encountered a production crisis in pandemic times. Paradoxically, it was this year that turned out to be the most vivid and victorious in the history of modern domestic cinema. True, mainly films traveling around the world began to shoot to Lockdown. Prizes of almost all the main festivals of the world. Boom of the serial industry. A record number of applications was submitted to participate in the Kinotavra contest - 104. The most severe competition, long and stormy debate of selectors. The fact that some films had to be reviewed again and again said the program director of Sitor Aliyev.

As a result, there are 15 works in the competition. And even at first glance it is clear that this is one of the most powerful programs in recent years, some paintings are already noticed in various sections of international views.

“Medea” is a modern interpretation of the ancient Greek tragedy, awarded the prize of the youth jury of the International Film Festival in Locarno. The picture according to his own scenario was set by Alexander Zeldovich.

The formulation of the prize is so good that it draws on a mini-reaches: “For a spectacular modern version of the tragedy of Euripides, which does not distort its poetics. For the aesthetic scrupulousness of directing, the purity and venality of the image, the harsh beauty of the landscapes, which correspond to the tragic magnitude of the original text. In Medea, modern topics with an unlucking thread of the myth are boldly intertwined, offering an unprecedented audiovisual experience. ”

Gerda Natalya Kudryashova also took the prize of the Youth Jury of the festival in Locarno. And in the nomination “Best Female Role”, the leading actor of the main role of the debutant Anastasia Krasovskaya, who lives in Minsk, won the main role. Kudryashova found Anastasia on Instagram, watching more than 1000 letters of unprofessional actresses.

“NUCHOCH” Vladimir Munkuev is the owner of the main prize “Crystal Globe” of the contest “East of the West” of the Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. The picture was shot based on the books of the Polish ethnographer and writer Vaclav Seroshevsky and talks about the inhabitants of the Yakut region at the end of the 19th century.

From the ordinary - shown in the Venice of the phantasmagoria of the Stalin era “Captain Volkonov fled” Natalya Merkulova and Alexei Chupov. About the repentant Chekist, living in an enchanted country who wrote a denunciation.

Among the expected films of the melodrama of Nikolai Khomerika “The Sea is worried once” according to the script of Alexander Rodionov. The first for many years is a completely copyright director of the director. With his intention of the chamber “Cinema about Relations”, Nikolai went to a variety of producers, for a long time he searched for a like -minded person. It turned out to be producer Roman Borisevich, who once supported the first work in the cinema of Khlebnikov and Popogrebsky.

The new picture of the actor and director Grigory Dobrygin “at close range” about the actress, who, in the midst of the pandemic under her door, found a courier from Central Asia unconscious. In the title role of Ksenia Rappoport.

“Danube” - directorial debut of the screenwriter Lyubov Kubomenko (according to her scenarios, Natalya Meshchaninova, Valery Todorovsky, Nigin Saifullaeva were shot). Modern love story with a Serbian accent.

Director is a strong magnet. The famous director Yevgeny Grigoryev came to the fiction cinema from the dock and shot the film "Hunkers" . The famous theater director, the artistic director of “Contemporary” Viktor Ryzhakov debuted in the movie “The Day of the Dead” . The famous operator Roman Vasyanov, who was in demand in Russia (“dudes”) and in “Hollywood (“ Fury ”,“ Suicide Squad ”), shot the playing film “ Dormitory ” . This is an adaptation of the novel by Alexei Ivanov “Dormitory-on-Blood”. The world premiere of the film took place at the Shanghai festival.

It seems curious the painting “Portrait of a stranger” by Sergei Osipyan, a film adaptation of the book of the St. Petersburg writer and scientist Boris Vakhtin, retro from the stagnant era of the USSR. It is extremely curious to see the second picture of Kirill Sokolov “Remove and throw it away” . A couple of years ago, his debuts, an abundant black comedy "Dad, die!" Frapped a well -being. Nevertheless, the main prize of the “window to Europe” festival was awarded.

In general, I do not envy the jury under the control of Chulpan Khamatova. The program of films, worthy of awards, clearly more than the allotted prizes. And the hottest will be in the “Debut” nomination.

Where are your wings?

The film “Kinotavrav” will be a documentary picture of Peter Shepotinnik “There will be no others” (producers and co -authors of the idea - Valery Fedorovich and Evgeny Nikishov). Peter Shepotinnik and his colleague Asya Kolodizhner for almost three decades have been conducting the annals of world film festivals, making films, making programs about the movie for the Culture channel. Over the years, they have formed a fantastic archive. They made their documentary double portrait of the key heroes of the new Russian cinema Sergei Bodrov - the younger and Alexei Balabanov on the basis of long -standing filming and new interviews. With producer Sergei Selvanov, with Balabanov’s wife, costume designer Nadezhda Vasilyeva, with the operator Sergei Astakhov, who shot both “brother”, “brother-2”, and “about freaks and people”. With Dmitry Shibnev, the administrator of the same group of the film "Svyaznoy", which disappeared under an avalanche in the Karmadon Gorge, along with his director Sergei Pepodrov.

The playing himself in the film “Brother” Vyacheslav Butusov compares Bodrov with the young hero, from whom some power comes, a feeling of harmony. A very unusual hero, without a fabulous scope in the shoulders. During the filming, the modest hero wrote a dissertation on the history of architects. Actually, on this they are with the soloist of Nautilus, also by education by an architect, and agreed.

It was a strange, electric and delicate connection - Balabanov/Bodrov. Both the authors of the film, and everyone who starred in it, is trying to consider its origins from today's far, its nature. But first of all, to understand the phenomenon of gigantic folk love for a character born to this union. Danila Bagrov wrote letters from all distant and near borders. Trusted the secret. Consulted. He became universal brother. The last hope for deceived, impoverished. Robin Hood, Dubrovsky. Nashensky - from aspen - Superman. He went out in his tattered Balaban sweater from the screen, became a real, separate creature generated by the pen and directing of Balabanov, Astakhov’s camera, the music of “Nautilus”. I want to cry from pain or forget in a dream, / Where are your wings that I liked so much?

Even Sergei Bodrov himself speaks of a separately existing Danila, that perhaps for him he is a “brother”.

Everyone asked how this intelligent boy could, an art critic studying the painting of the Venetian Renaissance, so accurately play Killer. Nadia Vasiliev-Balabanova explains that the directory of Balabanov’s directing was a combination of incompatible. And perhaps it is the inactive nature of the personality, its reliability, complexity, authenticity and became the cause of popular love. The screen felt not only the truth, but also the volume of personality. I wanted to peer into this depth.

... Sergey Bodrov on the set with a broken face Danila Bagrov admits to an interview with Peter Shepotinnka that he did not want to be an actor.

Indeed, I didn’t want to: the role for him was not a profession, but “the“ act that you are doing ”.

He grew up before our eyes. He became a director. Thought as a director. And when he came to Sergei Selianov with the idea of ​​his film, the producer immediately supported him. “This is a special figurative warehouse of directorial thinking,” says Selianov, “he is not in his head, not in school - at the level of the spinal cord.”

And a year before the death in his beloved Venice, Sergei Bodrov admits that he is painfully trying to understand the direction of his only unique road, tries to walk on it firmly, responsible for what you are doing. Do not be afraid to break something, even if you have thunder and fall ... Understand what you sacrifice ...

"Is it possible to make an optimistic film about vigor?" - Ask the authors. And almost everyone answers: “Yes, you can,” further about how bright Sergey was. But in their eyes they have longing and pain, which has not gone anywhere in these 19 years from the date of his death.

He could not cope with this pain and Balabanov, who, with the death of his younger “brother”, seemed to come off a thrombus, blocking the course of blood.

"Are we going or are we waiting for someone?" - The tired voice of Sergei Bodrov sounds from the walkie -talkie after a long day of filming ... A second before the ice avalanche at a speed of 150 km per hour will rush to them.

September 20, 2002. 20:08. “There will be no others! / Neither here, nor where everyone is equal. / That's why our days are considered in this place. ”

Here he is in the Adidas baseball cap by the camera. Waiting for a turntable. The helicopter flies over the Karmadon gorge, breaking out of there miraculously into the city, flanifying on the credits above the denouement of roads somewhere near Moscow. And it seems that we hear their voices, and that the experienced director Alexei Balabanov, having seen this boy with a child’s face, puffy lips and an adult look at the Kino -Taurus in the “Kino -Taurus”, came up and said: “Let's make a movie together.”