USSIAN FILM FESTIVAL
at the UPFI Film Center
in cooperation with the Embassy of Russian Federation
JULY 13 - 16, 2010
UPFI Cine Adarna

*FREE ADMISSION*

Screening Schedule:
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JULY 13 / TUESDAY
5pm - WARD NO.6
7pm - THE STAR

JULY 14 / WEDNESDAY
5pm - THE MIRROR
7pm - AGONY

JULY 15 / THURSDAY
5pm - VANISHED EMPIRE
7pm - AGONY

JULY 16 / FRIDAY
5pm - WARD NO.6
7pm - THE MIRROR

Featured Films:
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WARD NO. 6 (2009, 83 min.)
July 13 / 5pm
July 16 / 5pm

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov with the participation of Alexander Gornovsky
Script by Alexander Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov
Camera by Alexander Kuznetsov
Art Design by Lyudmila Kusakova
Music by Evgeni Kadimsky

S t a r r i n g:
Vladimir Ilyin, Alexey Vertkov, Alexander Pankratov-Chyorny, Evgeny Stychkin, Victor Solovyev, Alexey Zharkov, Albina Evtushevskaya

Synopsis:
The film is a screen version of the mysterious paradoxical and disturbing story by Chekhov, which can be in all justice called the most pessimistic and also the most life-asserting work of the author.
The story is based on a real life incident and centers around the head doctor of an asylum who winds up as the asylum patient. Lonely, estranged, reflecting Doctor Andrey Ragin is one of the focal characters in the work of Chekhov and the entire world literature of the 20th century.
The screenplay is an adaptation of Chekhov’s story. Preserving the story-line the authors deliberately move the scene into the present.
Shooting of the film was done in a real asylum, in a novel semi-documentary manner.

THE STAR(2002, 97 min)
July 13 / 7pm

prod.: "Mosfilm Cinema Concern"
Script by Evgeniy Grigoriev
Alexander Borodyansky
Directed by Nikolai Lebedev
Camera by Yuri Nevski
General Producer Karen Shakhnazarov
Art design by Ludmila Kusakova

S t a r r i n g
Igor Petrenko, Artem Semakin, Alexei Panin, Alexei Kravchenko, Anatoly Guschin, Amadu Mamadakov, Yury Laguta, Andrei Yegorov, Ekaterina Vulichenko

This film is a screen version of a novelette of the same by Emmanuil Kazakevich.

The World War 11, 1944. The Star is a call-sign of a reconnaissance detachment that went in the enemy rear. Their task was to reveal plans of the German Army and to find out dislocation of armored troops. At the cost of their lives soldiers inform headquarters about forthcoming wide front attack. The story is highly tense and dramatic, it makes us remember who and at what price gained a victory in that war. Wonderful producing, outstanding photography, shrilly and passionate music submerge a spectator into the war atmosphere when each wrong step can be fateful.

THE MIRROR(1974, 108 min.)
July 14 / 5pm
July 16 / 7pm

Script by Alexander Misharin, Andrey Tarkovsky
Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky
Camera by Georgy Rerberg
Music by Eduard Artemev
Art Design by Nikolay Dvigubsky

S t a r r i n g
Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larissa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Soloni¬tsin, Nikolay Grinko, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Yury Nazarov, Oleg Yankovsky
The film is a man’s thoughts and confession. In the film, like in the mirror, the pictures of his past, which are revived by the force of his memory and reflect ordinary and complex, important and accidental events, which comprise the life with its individuality. In the beginning the recollection seems to be uncollected, but gradually it becomes clear, that it is the man’s settling of accounts, uneasy trial of his conscience.

AGONY (1974, 152 min.)
July 14 / 7pm
July 15 / 7pm

Script by Semyon Lungin, Ilya Nusinov
Directed by Elem Klimov
Camera by Leonid Kalashnikov
Music by Alfred Shnitke
Art Design by Shavkat Abdusalamov, Sergey Voronkov

S t a r r i n g
Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoly Romashin, Alexey Petrenko, Alexander Romantsov, Sergey Muchenikov, Yury Katin-Yartsev, Boris Ivanov, Mikhail Danilov, Leonid Bronevoy, Bayten Omarov
It is 1916 year. It is the agony of the Romanovs’ family. All these raise mysticism and hope of the divine disposal, which can bring the country’s deadlock to an end. Grigory Rasputin figures at court. Jobbers and adventurers of all kinds gather round the “St. Old Man”. The actions take place in two layers – historic-documentary and feature. The court circus prepares and carries out the murder of Rasputin.

THE VANISHED EMPIRE (2007, 105 min)
July 15 / 5pm

Script by: Sergey Rokotov with assistance of Evgeny Nikishov
Directed by: Karen Shakhnazarov
Camera by: Shandor Berkeshi
Art-design by: Ludmila Kusakova
Music by: Konstantin Shevelev
Executive producer: Galina Shadur
Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov

Starring: Alexander Lyapin, Lidia Milyuzina, Egor Baranovsky, Ivan Jupreenko, Olga Tumaikina, Armen Jigarkhanyan, Vladimir Ilyin and others.

The film's story takes place in Moscow in the 1970s. Its plot unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.

"THE VANISHED EMPIRE" depicts the heyday of the Soviet State at the peak of its power, which marks the starting point of its collapse as well.

Karen Shakhnazarov's new and rather personal film is a delicate study of this imminent and irrevocably passing era.

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