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In Production
- Feature Films
- Roman Prygunov's Indigo is due for release in spring 2008
- Garik Sukachev will shortly release The House of the Sun (Dom solntsa)
- Denis Neimand is completing his film Open Space (Otkrytoe prostranstvo)
- Marat Sarulu is completing his film Song of the Southern Seas.
- Pavel Lungin is shooting Ivan the Terrible near Suzdal.
- Aleksandr Zel'dovich is making a film entitled The Target (Mishen' ), set in 2020 and nased on an original script by Vladimir Sorokin.
- Aleksei Popogrebsky is embarking on his next film to be shot in Siberia.
- Il'ia Khrzhanovsky is in pre-production of his film Dau, based on Sorokin.
- Fedor Bondarchuk is making a film based on the Strugatskii Brothers: The Inhabited Island which is in two parts with the first to be completed in autumn 2008
- Alexander Kott has completed a film based on a script by Irakli Kvirikadze, Princess Mary.
- Katya Shagalova is preparing a film entitled Once in the Provinces (Odnazhdy v provintsii)
- Mikhail Brashinsky is shooting his film Antalya
- Bashkortostan Studio: Aidar Akmanov is making Windcatcher (Lovets vetra) , a comedy.
- Sergei Govorukhin is making a film entitled Nobody but us (Nikto krome nas), about the cameraman Levashov who travels to the war zone Tajikistan.
- Ekaterina Grokhovskaya is making Quarantine, a film about a children holiday camp.
- Ekaterina Grokhovskaya is also preparing Flower of the Devil (Tsvetok d'iavola), about a girl, Polina, who meets Sasha at polo games, but waits for her dream of a blue flower to come true, as predicted by her shaman friend.
- Stanislav Govorukhin is preparing a film entitled The Passenger (Passazhirka).
- Alexei Fedorchenko is shooting Railway (Zheleznaya doroga), a fairy tale for grown-ups.
- Bakhtior Khudoinazarov is in post-production of Living Fish (Zhivaya ryba), based on a script by Oleg Antonov, with Oleg Yankovsky, Moritz Bleibtreu, Konstantin Khabensky.
- Vladimir Menshov is in post-production with a film based on Ferenc Molnar, a melodrama entitled The Great Waltz (Bolshoi wa'lts).
- Sergei Soloviev working on a sequel to ASSA, 2-ASSA-2, starring Tatiana Drubich
- Guka Omarova is making a new film, Baksy (The Shaman), produced by CTB.
- Sergei Dvortsevoi is making Tulip (Tiul'pan), a Kazakh-Russian-German co-production, about the Kazakh Bolat who is demobbed and returns to his native Kazakhstan.
- Oleg Stepchenko is preparing a film based on Aleksei Poiarkov's script entitled Target (Tsel') for ROSPO. An action movie about a helicopter crash and Russian soldiers who are taken hostage.
- Aleksei Uchitel is embarking on a project of Kavkazskii plennyi based on Makanin's novel..
- Valeri Todorovskii is making a musical film entitled Boogie on the Bones (Bugi na kostiakh ).
- Renata Litvinova is making a film called Waiting for the Woman (Zhdat zhenshchinu) .
- Vasilii Pichul has made a musical film about film festivals, Kinofest.
- Oleg Kovalov is making a film entitled I am Afraid (Ia boius'). A parable about a girl and a criminal set in St Petersburg.
- Elena Zhigaieva has completed her debut film based on a script by Marina Mareeva, Killing the Evening (Ubit vecher), about an occasional meeting of a young man and a young woman in a seaside resort.
- Egor Konchalovsky will make Antikiller 3, where Lis follows a maniac killer.
- Vladimir Naumov is editing his film Madonna on the street (Madonna na asfal'te ), about a young woman who loses her husband.
- Iurii Rogozin is making a film Eniki Beniki about a boy who lives with his mother on the seaside and dreams of finding his father. (NTV Profit)
- Iurii Mamin is shooting Don't Think about White Monkeys (Ne dumai pro belykh obezian) about the encounter of a businessman with the bohemian world.
- Marlen Khutsiev is shooting a film entitled Nevechernyaya about Tolstoy and Chekhov.
- Aleksei German Sr is shooting What the Tobacconist from Tobacco Street Said (Chto skazal tabachnik s Tabachnoi ulitsy ), based on the Strugatsky Brothers' Trudno byt' bogom. Lenfilm's Sever.
- Sergei Soloviev is preparing a film entitled Elisabeth and Claudille (Elizaveta i Klodil ) about two young girls in1909.
- Vladimir Motyl' is preparing a historical film set in the period of WWI to NEP, following the fate of Ksenia Gerstel, who loses her parents and her fiancé in the war, before meeting General Batorskii: The Crimson Colour of Snow (Bagrovyi tsvet snegopada )
- Alexander Bashirov is preparing to make an action movie entitled The Dead (Mertvyi ), based on an idea by Konstantin Murzenko.
- Sergei Snezhkin is preparing a musical-film based on the Adventures of Soldier Schweijk. He is also completing a comedy about a lost lottery ticket, entitled A Dream (Mechta).
- Sergei Ovcharov is preparing a new film project, Utopia II .
- Nikita Mikhalkov is filming Burnt by the Sun II planned for 2008 and set in Germany. The part of Marusia will be played by Viktoria Tolstoganova.
- Pygmalion film have acquired the rights for a film version of Oksana Robskii's Casual
- Serials
- Alexander Khvan is shooting a detective serial for television entitled The Collection (Коллекция), dealing with the illegal sale of paintings from Petersburg collections.
- Sergei Soloviev is serialising Anna Karenina for First Channel.
- Dmitrii Fiks is making a serial based on Maksim Stishov's script, entitled Bol'shaia liubov'. Set in the late 50s.
- Animation
- The animator Irina Evteeva has completed her film based on Lermontov's Demon.
News ...
In May 2007 Dmitri Malyshev was appointed to succeed Alexander Novikov as Dean of the Film Institute.
In July 2005 Andrei Plakhov was elected President of FIPRESCI.
The Museum of Cinema has left its headquarters at KinoTsentr at the end of 2005. It moved to premises on the Mosfilm territory. Its film programme will be run at various venues in Moscow.
In October 2004 Mikhalkov was re-elected chairman of the Filmmakers' Union at the VI Congress. The number of delegates taking part in the vote was non-quorate. In December 2004 Vladilen Arseniev becomes chairman of the Moscow section of the FU. The Producers' Section is headed by V. Dostal. In February 2005 V. Matizen is elected chairman of the Guild of Critics.
On 9 March 2004 Aleksandr Sokolov, former Dean of the Moscow Conservatory, was confirmed as new Minister of Culture and Mass Communication.
On 13 March 2004 Mikhail Shvydkoi, hitherto Minister of Culture, was named as Head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (FACC), also called Roskultura.
On 27 April 2004 Aleksandr Golutva and Dmitri Malyshev were named deputies heads of the Federal Agency.
On 30 May 2004 Sokolov was confirmed as Minister (following the presidential elections).
On 31 May 2004 Sergei Lazaruk was confirmed as Head of the Cinema Section in FACC.
On 9 December 2003 Vsevolod Shilovsky has been confirmed as the new artistic manager of the Dom Kino, Moscow.
On 1 November 2003 Vladimir Putin visited the Mosfilm studios. The absence of Nikita Mikhalkov during this meeting was widely commented upon in the media. The citation of some press comments on Mikhalkov in Kinoprocess No.6 (2003) left in doubt both the management and the financing of further issues of the invaluable bulletin.
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Festivals
The company CTC now organises the Russian Open Film Festival in Sochi, which it took over with the name KINOTAVR in 2005. Information on past KINOTAVR festivals on KiKuKinotavr .
The NIKA is the equivalent of the Oscar Academy Award, awarded each year in April. Awards and nominations are listed here.
The Moscow International Film Festival MIFF is held annually in the second half of June. The 29thI edition will take place from 21-30 June 2007 under new management.
The Bulletin of Russian Cinematography Kinoprotsess , from which part of the information provided in these pages is drawn with kind permission, has been published since May 1999. For further information, visit Kinoprocess .
Listings
Journals & Websites
the research journal Kinovedcheskie zapiski
online version of the journal Film Art Iskusstvo kino
on films of the former Soviet republics: Kinoforum .
ONLINE editions... Kinoism ::::: newspaper Kultura ::::: in English: KinoEye
animator.ru tells you everything about animation (site in Russian and English)
journal Seans, St Petersburg
Production&Distribution Companies
Databases & Statistics
Obituaries
Savva Kulish, filmmaker, chairman of the Moscow Filmmakers' Union, died in June 2001
Grigory Chukhrai, filmmaker, died in November 2001
Mikhail Ptashuk, filmmaker, died in April 2002
Andrei Rostotski, filmmaker, died in May 2002
Anatoli Grebnev, scriptwriter, died in June 2002
Sergei Bodrov Junior, actor and director, and his film crew died on 20 September 2002 in Karmadon, Ossetia.
Evgeni Matveyev, filmmaker, died on 1 June 2003.
Alina Silikashvili, film critic of Radio Russia, died in Sochi on 18 June 2003.
Leonid Maryagin, filmmaker, died on 16 September 2003.
Georgi Vladimiv, writer and screenwriter, died on 20 October 2003.
Leonid Filatov, actor and writer, died on 26 October 2003.
Elem Klimov, filmmaker, died on 27 October 2003.
Nikolai Volkov, actor, died on 10 November 2003.
Miron Chernenko, film critic, died on 24 February 2004.
Viktor Avilov, actor at the Yugo-Zapad Theatre, died of cancer on 22 August 2004.
Viktor Rozov, playwright, died at the age of 91 on 28 September 2004.
Vadim Mikhalev, film critic and professor of VGIK, died on 13 January 2005.
Igor Talpa, filmmaker, died on 4 March 2005.
Natalia Gundareva, actress, died on 5 May 2005.
Inna Ulianova, actress, died on 10 June 2005.
Mikhail Evdokimov, filmmaker, died on 7 August 2005.
Melik Karapetian, architect of the 5* cinema and the Cinema Centre in Montreal, died in November 2005.
Marianna Tavrog, filmmaker of popular science programmes, died on 21 June 2006.
Valerii Ogorodnikov, filmmaker, died on 1 July 2006, aged 55.
Andrei Kras'ko, actor, died on 5 July 2006, aged 49.
Levan Zakareishvili, filmmaker (Tblisi-Tblisi), b. 1953, died on 24 August 2006.
Viacheslav Maiasov, b. 1954, co-founder of the animation studios Guberniia and Master-Film, died on 10 September 2006.
Neya Zorkaya, film scholar, died in October 2006.
Viktor Sergeev, filmmaker and former head of Lenfilm, died on 20 November 2006.
Leonid Kozlov, b. 1933, film historian, died on 20 September 2006.
Alexander Tatarsky, b. 1950, animator and head of the studio PILOT, dies 22 July 2007.
