VIDRIMASGOR, or the Story of my cosmos
(VIDRIMASGOR, ili ISTORIYA MOEGO KOSMOSA)

optimystic comedy

Written by Yana Polyarush, Inga Kirkizh
Directed by Yana Polyarush
Photography Aleksey Solodov
Production designer Vladimir Svetozarov
Casting Alla Petelina
Production manager Alena Parviaynin
Producer Viacheslav Telnov

Cast: Aleksandra Bayrakovskaya, Andrey Feskov, Olga Antonova, Larisa Malevannaya, Tatiana Tuzova, Sergey Migitsko, Nodari Dzhanelidze, Larisa Lusta, Marianna Anokhina, Aleksandr Karpukhov

One day residents of a communal flat in Saint-Petersburg look out of the window and see not a courtyard as usual - but their inmost dreams. While they are guessing if it is a hallucination or reality their lives start to change totally.

Production: "Lenfilm" studios

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I BELIEVE
(VERUYU)

fiction

Directed by Lidiya Bobrova
Photography Valery Revich
Production designer Yury Suchkov
Sound Igor Terekhov
Edited by Tatiana Bystrova
Line producer Vladimir Roslov
Producer Viacheslav Telnov
Co-producer Lidiya Bobrova

Cast: Aleksander Aravushkin, Irina Osnovina, Sergey Amosov, Fedor Yasnikov, Aleksander Fedorov, Yury Zhigarkov

Based on the novels by Vasily Shukshin

Production: "Lenfilm" studios, "Narodny film"

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BACKDOOR
(S CHERNOGO KHODA)

Melodrama, 2009

Written and Directed by Stanislav Mitin
Director of Photography Sergey Lando
Art Director Vladimir Svetozarov
Costume Designer Marina Nikolaeva
Casting Alena Bogorad
Producer Viacheslav Telnov

Cast: Vladimir Kuznetsov, Alla Oding, Sergey Gamov, Svetlana Schedrina, Polina Filonenko

Senior pupil Misha falls in love with his form-mistress. Anna Nikolaevna consciously returns his feelings at the risk. The first love, doomed and forbidden, changes the youth, leaving his soul in sorrow and happiness…

Production: "Lenfilm" studios

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GERMAN: FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA
(GERMAN: PO TU STORONU KAMERY)

video documentary , 52 min, 2008

Directed by Alexander Pozdnyakov
Line producer Mikhail Kirilyuk

A documentary portrait of the famous Saint-Petersburg film director, who created his own unique style and own world that have influenced the famous “Leningrad film school” formation.
Son of a well-known writer, Alexey German, speaks about his life, time and creative work

Production: "Lenfilm" studios

Status: finished

ANGEL'S AISLE
(PRIDEL ANGELA)

35 mm, 3100 m, 1:1.66, Dolby Sterео, color, 2008

Written and directed by Nikolay Dreyden
Director of Photography Valery Lerner
Sound director Leonid Lerner
Music by Maria Romanova
Art director Aleksandr Suvorov
Costume designer Angela Sapunova
Make-up Tatiana Vavilova
Edited by Leda Semenova, Igor Vardunas
Producers Grigory Nikulin (r.i.p.), Tamara Ponomarenko, Vyacheslav Telnov
Line producer Valentina Bratseva

Cast: Aleksey Morozov, Emilia Spivak, Maria Reznik, Tapani Perttu, Aleksandr Bargman, Artur Vakha, Vitaly Kovalenko, Dmitry Lysenkov, Vladimir Matveev, Khelga Filippova, Vitas Eizenakh, Oleg Ryazantsev

Year 1924. Soviet Russia. He is a commissioner, son of a priest. His mission is to liquidate the Finnish general. His new name is Maksim. She knows how to save him...

Production: "Studio N" in association with "Lenfilm Studios" and "Konevsky Rozhdestvo-Bogorodichny" monastery

Status: finished

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PAPER SOLDIER
(BUMAZHNY SOLDAT)

color, fiction, 3000 m, Dolby, 2008

Written by Aleksey German-jr, Vladimir Arkusha
Directed by Aleksey German-jr.
Director of photography Maksim Drozdov,
Alisher Khamikhodzhaev
Executive producer Philipp Pastukhov
Producers Artem Vasiliev, Sergey Shumakov

Cast: Chulpan Khamatova, Merab Ninidze, Anastasia Sheveleva

The first human space-flight preparation and the personal tragedy of the main character are happening at once. Daniil Pokrovsky, the doctor for the first soviet cosmonaut troop, finds himself in the conflict between two women in love with him, between spiritual harmony and scientific duty. The choice Daniil makes can cost not only his own happiness and rank, but even his life.

Production: "Phenomen films", in association with "Lenfilm studios"

Status: finished

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RAINING SEASON
(SEZON DOZHDEY)

advernture drama, 2008

Written and directed by Sergey Debizhev
Director of photography Anton Drozdov
Soundtrack Boris Grebenschikov

Cast: Aleksey Serebryakov, Ksenia Rappoport, Renata Litvinova, Nikolay Marton, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Mikhail Efremov, Arkady Volgin, Sergey Bugaev "Africa" and others

Synopsis: Plot of this adventure drama covers three time periods: beginning of XX-th century, 40-s and present. Story untwists in Russia, France and State of Cambodia

Production: Documentary Film Studio & "Lenfilm" studios

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DON'T THINK ABOUT WHITE MONKEYS
(NE DUMAY PRO BELYKH OBEZIAN)

comedy, 2008

Written by Jury Mamin, Vladimir Vardunas, Vyacheslav Leykin (poetic parts)
Directed by Yury Mamin
Art Director Leonid Karpov
Director of Photography Alexander Gusev

Cast: Mikhail Tarabukin, Ekaterina Ksenyeva, Aleksey Devotchenko, Anvar Libabov, Victor Smirnov, Oleg Basilashvili, Sergey Yursky.

AGITBRIGADE "BEAT THE ENEMY"
(AGITBRIGADA "BEY VRAGA")

Tragicomedy, 2007

Written and Directed by Vitaly Melnikov
Director of photography Sergey Astakhov
Art Director Vladimir Dyatlenko
Costume Designer Larisa Konnikova
Music Sergey Banevich
Chief Producer Andrey Zertsalov
Co-producer Oleg Urushev
Executive producer Olga Agrafenina

Cast:
Victor Sukhorukov, Kirill Pirogov, Natalya Tkachenko, Anna Danilova, Nikita Leitland, Aleksey Devotchenko, Ludmila Zaytseva, Oksana Mysina.

During WWII the agitprop actors company sails down great Siberian rivers. Deported people from all over the USSR live along its banks. The boat stops at every village to agitate for the victory of Soviet Army. They perform little sketches and play films.

Coproduction with "Ugra-film" company. Financially supported by the Federal Agency of culture and cinematography and by the Govenrment of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous region (Yugra).

WHO WAS SHAKESPEAR?
(KTO BYL SHEKSPIROM)

Mind game, 2007

Written and directed by Vitaly Aksenov
Music Andrey Sigle
Director of photography Ivan Morozov
Art Director Vladimir Svetozarov
Consultant Victor Tolkachev, System Mind Academy (New York, USA)
Producer Andrey Zertsalov

An attempt to solve one of the greatest mysteries of world literature…

Noone knows who Shakespear was, that's why not pretending to scientific laurels we let ourselves play this funny fascinating game. With personal assistance of: Elizabeth (virgin-queen of England), her numerous favourites and secret lovers, illegitimate children, her brother-in-law Lord Henry Carry baron Hudson, philosophers Francis Bakon and Francois Voltair, poets and accomplices Marlo and Johnson, heroes of world-famous drama "Hamlet", stars of world science and ordinary fans of the Poet... And, of course, legendary, treacherous and very Swarthy Lady.

INTELLECTUAL GAME for everyone, played in London's "Globe" theatre, in Westminter Abbey, in Tower, in Madam Tussaud's Museum, at the mysterious grave of Shakespear with detailed examination of: unknown to wide audience and obviously faked documents, mysteriously appeared death-mask of a Poet and his portraits (totally different from Him).
And with as friendly as possible examination of very doubtful pretenders to the role of Shakespear (57 people!).

RUSSIAN EMPIRE. THE BEGINNING
(ROSSIYSKAYA IMPERIA. NACHALO)

historical drama, 2007

Directed by Vitaly Melnikov

First, trilogy was considered to be a unified three-part film. Uniting subject was a formation of Russian State system and moral collisions connected with that.
First part was devoted to relations between tsar Peter and his heir, prince Alexey. The second part took us to the peak of Ekaterina's II reign, the time of her desperate struggle for power. The third part told us about the life of Paul I, whose tragic death was like to finish rough XVIII century.
The finale of the third film "Poor, poor Paul" is made like a resumptive ending of the trilogy.
Thus perfomative and artistic potential of all three films gives an opportunity to untwist a wide panorama of russian life in XVIII century, rough and generous with events and dramas.

LIGHTS in the STAGE
(SVET V PAVILIONE)

documentary fiction, 2007

Written and Directed by Alexander Pozdnyakov
Director of Photography Valery Lerner
Cameramen Igor Plaksin
Editing Vladimir Nepevny
Art Director Victor Ivanov
Make-up Director Olga Shamkovich
Costume Designer Angela Sapunova
Sound Director Boris Andreev
Line Producer Alexander Vasilyev
Executive Producer Olga Agrafenina
Producer Andrey Zertsalov

Cast: Leonid Rivman, Alisa Freundlich, Aleksey German, Semen Furman, Anna Kovalchuk, Alexander Slastin, Tatiyana Piletskaya, Semen Strugachev, Aleksey Barabash, Nataliya Fisson, Viktor Sukhorukov, Leonid Mozgovoy and others...

"Lights in the stage" - is a declaration of love to a dream-factory connected with lives of many and many people, who created coloured and black-n-white illusions for millions of spectators...

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THE HOLLOW
(YAR)

drama, 2007

Based on the same-named story by Sergey Esenin
Written and directed by Marina Razbezhkina
Director of Photography Irina Uralskaya

Cast: Mikhail Evlanov, Polina Filonenko, Sergey Gamov

Studio "Kinomelnitsa"

"The Hollow – is the place that holds people tight. If they leave it they will die. The main character Karev is the only one who wants to get out of Ravine. Escaped he severs with traditional values and unwittingly makes people dear to him die". (From interview with the director Marina Razbezhkina).

SHIPS USED TO COME TO HARBOUR...
(V GAVAN ZAKHODILI KORABLI)

Comedy, 2006

Written and directed by Mikhail Konovalchuk
Director of photography Grigory Panov
Art Director Dmitry Pakhomov
Costume Designer Tatiyana Tomashevskaya
Cast: Mikhail Kiriluk, Irina Pavlovskaya, Vasily Kornyljev, Ivan Krasko, Ksenia Tsurkova, Anna Koroleva, Vladislav Kurtis-Orlov, Yury Kachalov, Alexandra Mariskina, Adil Kusov, Vladimir Mariyanov, Olga Lazareva, Aleksey Kashnikov, Alexandr Vakhitov, Egor Tomoshevsky.

Script-writer Mikhail Konovalchuk ("The Name-day", together with Sergey Seliyanov - Time for sorrow has not yet come up" and "Whit monday", with Sergey Snezhkin - "Flowers of Calendula") debuts as director.
Shootings took place in Kronshtadt in summer 2005.

THE DREAM
(MECHTA)

Comedy, 2006

Written and Directed by Sergey Snezhkin
Director of photography Lomer Akhvlediani
Art Director Maria Grin
Cast: Nikita Podokhanov, Egor Morozov, Nina Malakhova, Arthur Vaha, Konstantin Vorobjev, Olga Samoshina, Valerij Kuhareshin.

Production: "Lenfilm" studio, "Barmaley" studio

The plot twists around the lottery-ticket going to win million dollars. Main characters: two homeless, two teenagers and two officials - are striving for the same prize. Noone wants to let another have it. The chase for the lucky ticket begins.

Sergey Snezhkin - director of "Non-returnee", "Flowers of Calendula", laureate of "TEFI" award for "Brezhnev" serial.

THE AWAKENING
(PROBUZHDENIE)

Drama, 2006

Written by Konstantin S.
Directed by Stanislav Lebedev
Art Director Vladimir Svetozarov
Director of Photography Sergey Lando
Music by Leonid Sendersky
Produced by Andrey Zertsalov
Cast: Valya Zeyfer, Yury Kuznetsov, Era Ziganshina

   A 12 years old Sergey who lives with his invalid Granddad in the end of 1990s has a dream to become a stepdancer…

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Stanislav Lebedev (the director) talks about the film

ME AND YOU
(YA I TY)
Melodrama / Short film, 2006

Written by Valery Tukhin
Director Victor Tatarsky
Director of photography Alexander Korneev
Cast: Ilya Shakunov, Anna Astrakhantseva

     A man meets a woman on a railway station, and they have to spend some time together while traveling in one coupe deuce…

THE ITALIAN
(ITALIANETS)

drama, 2005
color, 35mm, 92 min
in association with "TULOS-CINEMA"

Written by Andrei Romanov
Directed by Andrei Kravchuk
Director of photography Alexander Burov
Art director Vladimir Svetozarov
Music by Alexander Knaiffel
Sound director Aliakper Gasan-zade
Producers Anderi Zertsalov, Olga Agrafenina

Cast: Kolya Spiridonov, Maria Kuznetsova, Yuri Itskov, Nikolai Reutov

 Six-year-old Vanya, an orphan, is supposed to be adopted by an Italian family – that’s why he is called “The Italian”. He gets the chance to have a good life under the Mediterranean sun, but he suddenly decides to look for his own Mom, which means that he has to learn reading first in order to get her address from his private file…

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MYTHS OF MY CHILDHOOD
(MIFY MOEGO DETSTVA)

Tragicomedy, 2005

Written by Yuri Feting, Andrey Kravchuk
Directed by Yuri Feting
Director of photography Sergey Yurizditskiy
Art director Vladislav Orlov, Oleg Oskolkov
Art advisers Alexey German, Svetlana Karmalita
Produced by Victor Izvekov
Cast : Denis Kasimov, Klim Zvezdin, Irina Patrakova, Angelica Nevolina

    
      The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the
beginning of 1960-s.
  Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. A 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive. It is a story of first love and treachery.
  Funny and incredible local myths and legends which are related to the cult of ancient settlings are interlaced with the plot. Three thousand years ago on the place of this seaside village a chancel of a pagan Death Goddess was located and natives till today believe that every hundred years she turns back for new victims.
  Unique world of childhood is created in this poetic film
  An extraordinary visual magic of the film, lyricism and profound philosophic message which is put in the tragicomedy reminds us epical poetry of Paradzanov and Kusturitsa.

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Production: "Sever" cinemacompany with the support of Federal Agency of culture and cinematography.

LOPUKHI

Comedy, 2005

Written by Mikhail Wasserbaum
Directed by Andrey Korshunov, Mikhail Wasserbaum
Directors of photography Valery Martinov, Sergey Lando
Music by Vladimir Dashkevich
Producer Alexandr Nekrasov

Cast: Igor Lifanov, Natalya Burmistrova, Andrey Shimko, Vasily Shipitsin, Victor Smirnov, Svetlana Obidina, Sergey Russkin, Irina Rakshina, Egor Tomoshevsky, Konstantin Vorobjev, Olga Samoshina, Katya Berezkina, Georgy Shtil.

     “Lopuhi” is an eccentric comedy which embraces all human passions. Love and money. This two elements empowered people to wander, to commit feats and even crimes. It was always difficult and even impossible to stop the mad. It is not known what’s going to happen this time. “Lopuhi” is the moment of truth.

LENFILM STUDIOS in association with “BARMALEY” CHILDREN AND YOUTH FILMS STUDIO
2005

EVERYBODY'S DANCING
(TANTSUYUT VSE)

Romantic drama / musical, 2005

Written and directed by Pavel Parkhomenko
Director of photography Vladislav Gurchin
Art directors Pavel Parkhomenko, Victor Ivanov, Konstantin Pakhotin
Music by Victor Sobolenko
Sound by Igor Terekhov, Margarita Polyanskaya
Producers Andrey Zertcalov, Sergey Snezhkin
Cast:
Dmitry Lysenkov, Margarita Voloshinova, Katya Galeeva, Era Ziganshina, Andrey Butovko, Aleksey Torkover, Veronika Ryabkova, Vasily Shipicin, Vadim Demchog, Marianna Mokshina, Valentin Bukin, Gali Abaidulov, Olga Tarasenko, Mikhail Wasserbaum

     Leningrad at the end of the 50s. Ligovka, the city’s riff-raff area.
     The tough life of the dwellers of legendary Ligovka’s is shown in the film: young heroes are struggling for life really seriously and dramatically.
     But this toughness is required to emphasize the cheerfulness and energy of the heroes, their aspiration for future, no matter what kind of future was to come.
     The element of dancing which makes the heroes so overwhelmed with energy that they walk and talk capering and start to dance every time they have a chance to – is one side of Ligovka, and on the other side the characters from heroes’ dreams and ideas move, the characters that are born from the mystical ground of Saint-Petersburg, the city where “the Sun shines in a special way and statues grow from the houses”.

LENFILM STUDIOS in association with “BARMALEY” CHILDREN AND YOUTH FILMS STUDIO
2005

SAPIENS

color, 35 mm, short, 14 min, 2005

Written and directed by Alexander Rogozhkin
Director of photography Andrei Zhegalov
Art director Vladimir Svetozarov
Music by Dmitry Pavlov
Special effects Oleg Belyaev

Cast: Anastasia Khabenskaya, Andrei Krasko, Alexander Zagoskin

SAPIENS is not a symphony of a universal catastrophe, it is rather a small essay about us and about the world where we are trying to exist – so fast and silly, not mentioning many things around us. We are often busy with global questions and don’t pay attention to small and habitual things like a flower at the side of the road.

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DEMON

animation, 2004
color, 35 mm, 10 min

Written by Irina Evteeva, Yury Kravtsov
Directed by Irina Evteeva
Director of photography Genrikh Marandzhyan
Art director Natalia Kochergina
Sound Leonid Gavrichenko
Music by Andrei Sigle
Producer Andrei Zertsalov

Cast: Vladimir Adgjamov, Zara Mgoyan, Svetlana Svirko, Alexei Barabash, Semen Strugachev

Vocals: Zara Mgoyan, Vladimir Vyurov

 A romantic love story based on Lermontov’s poems, the novel “Princess of the silver garden” by Zinaida Gippius, and Mikhail Vrubel’s paintings.

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BABUSYA

color, 35 mm, 2003

Written and directed by Lidia Bobrova
Director of photography Valery Revich
Sound by Maxim Belovolov
Producer Andrey Zercalov

Cast: Nina Shubina, Yury Ovsyanko, Anna Ovsyannikova, Vladimir Kulakov, Sergey Gamov, Maria Lobache

 Babusya- a gentle name for a granny – felt alone with her grandchildren grew up and left her. Nobody wants to give a shelter to her. Only her junior grandson loves her, but he has no home… he is a refugee from Grozniy, where bloody Chechen war still continues…

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POOR, POOR PAUL
(BEDNY, BEDNY PAVEL)

historical drama, 2003
color, 35 mm, 100 min

Written and directed by Vitaly Melnikov
Director of photography Sergey Astakhov
Art director Alexander Zagoskin
Costume designer Larisa Konnikova
Music by Andrei Petrov

Cast: Victor Sukhorukov, Oleg Yankovsky, Julia Mavrina, Aleksey Barabash, Oksana Mysina, Vadim Lobanov, Anna Molchanova

The film is based on the facts of Russian history – the court conspiracy and the assassination of the Russian emperor Paul I in March 1801.

Paul dreamed to reform his empire in a European way but the favorites resisted his reform. Genenral-governor of St.Petersburg count von Palen betrayed his ruler, a man with romantic ideals and meditation who had been called “Russian Hamlet”.

 Paul I was strangled in Michailovsky Palace and his son Alexander was crowned as a new emperor of Russia.

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FILM DIRECTOR. PROFESSION AND FATE
(KINOREZHISSER. PROFESIYA I SUDBA)

“FEKS – The Factory of Eccentric Actor”, 38 min
Written and directed by Oleg Kovalov

“Nadezhda Kosheverova. Playing with dolls”, 38 min
Written and directed by Maria Solovcova

“Friedrich Ermler”, 38 min
Written and derected by Oleg Kovalov

“Semyon Aranovich. The Last Shot”, 38 min
Written by Yuri Klepikov
Directed by Andrey Kravchuk.

“Grigori Kozintcev”, 52 min
Written and directed by Marina Chudina.

“The Unknown Heifitz. A Hero Not Of Our Time”, 52 min
Written and Directed by Dmitri Svetozarov

“Ilya Averbakh. Camera Counter-angle”, 44 min
Written by Yuri Klepikov
Directed by Andrey Kravchuk

“The Vasilyev Brothers”, 38 min
Written and directed by Vladimir Nepevny

“Dinara Asanova”, 38 min
Written by Yekaterina Kharlamova
Directed by Marina Chudina, Yekaterina Kharlamova

Producers:
A. Zertsalov, V. Sergeeva, O. Agrafenina

 By Lenfilm’s 85th anniversary a group of authors prepared a cycle of video films about legendary directors of the past, who contributed not only to Lenfilm’s, but to the whole Russian cinema’s fame.

 Many of them became legends, so now it’s difficult to distinguish real persons behind this legends.

Not a genius, innovator, labor hero, but a personality of an artist who grievously tried to form up his or her creative work and life, who reflected upon it, who made mistakes and discoveries.
These nine films try to expose each legendary director’s secret of originality, their discoveries and mistakes, their aims and wishes in life and art.

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