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Golden Eagle Award For Best Cinematography
The Golden Eagle Award for Best Cinematography (russian: Золотой Орёл за лучшую операторскую работу в кино) is one of twenty award categories presented annually by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia. It is one of the Golden Eagle Award (Russia), Golden Eagle Awards, which were conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences. Each year the members of the academy choose three leading cinematographers and the film as a perception. The first cameraman to be awarded was Yuri Nevsky for the film ''The Star (2002 film), The Star''. The most recent award was made to Igor Grinyakin for ''Union of Salvation (film), Union of Salvation''. Nomineess and Awardees ;Key External links * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Golden Eagle Award For Best Cinematography Golden Eagle Awards (Russia), Cinematography Lists of films by award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Eagle Award (Russia)
The Golden Eagle Award (russian: link=no, премия Золотой Орёл) is an award given by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, directors, actors, and writers. Modelled after the American Golden Globe Awards, the formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in Russia, alongside the Nika Award. The national Russian award is given out in 20 categories each January for motion pictures and TV series produced in Russia during the previous year. The awarding statuette is a silver eagle, originally made from copper with a jade pedestal, and was designed by sculptor Viktor Mitroshin. The design was later altered by the Spanish company Carrera y Carrera. The award was conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 and run by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences in Moscow. History Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphoria (2006 Film)
''Euphoria'' (russian: Эйфория) is a 2006 Russian drama/romance film directed by dramatist and director Ivan Vyrypaev. This drama, rightly classified as tragedy, exposes shocking truth about cultural and material poverty of Russian provincial Village. The film was nominated on Golden Lion at 2006 Venice Film Festival and won Little Golden Lion. In the same year ''Euphoria'' won the Kinotavr Special Prize of the Jury. At the Russian Film Festival past autumn 2007 in the United Kingdom it was appreciated also, became one of the most successful festival films. The film stars Polina Agureeva and Mikhail Okunev. Plot The story unfolds in the Eurasian Steppes The Eurasian Steppe, also simply called the Great Steppe or the steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome. It stretches through Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Transnistria .... Vera lives with her husband Valery and their daughter in a house on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spy (2012 Russian Film)
''The Spy'' (russian: Шпион, Shpion) is a 2012 Russian spy film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's novel ''The Spy Novel'' ( Шпионский роман). It was directed by Alexey Andrianov, the film stars Danila Kozlovsky and Fyodor Bondarchuk. Akunin adapted his own novel. It had one of the largest film budgets in Russian history. Plot The movie is set in the year 1941, months before the German invasion of Russia. The two protagonists, NKVD officers Dorin and Oktyabrsky, are hunting a German Abwehr spy in Moscow. They believe their success might reveal Hitler's plans and the exact date of invasion. It is implied that Dorin is a distant relative of Erast Fandorin, the most popular character of Akunin's books. Cast * Danila Kozlovsky as Yegor Dorin, State Security Officer * Fyodor Bondarchuk as Alexey Oktyabrsky, Senior Major of State Security, Head of Dorin * Anna Chipovskaya as Nadezhda 'Nadya' * Viktoriya Tolstoganova as Iraida Petrakovich * Sergey Gazarov as People's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Horde (2012 Film)
''The Horde'' (Russian title: Орда ''Orda'', working title: Святитель Алексий ''Svjatitelj Alexij'') is a 2012 historical film directed by Andrei Proshkin and written by Yuri Arabov. The film is a highly fictionalised narrative of how Saint Alexius healed Taidula Khatun, the mother of the Golden Horde khan Jani Beg, from blindness. The film was released as ''The Golden Empire'' in the UK. Plot Jani Beg (Innokenty Dakayarov) kills his brother Khan Tini Beg (Andrey Panin) and replaces him. Soon, his mother Taidula (Roza Hairullina) goes blind and Jani Beg is desperate to have her blindness cured. Meanwhile, Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow (Maxim Sukhanov) has reached fame as a wondermaker and Jani Beg asks Ivan the Fair (Vitaly Khaev) hand Alexius to him as a healer. Alexius is reluctant but Ivan sees this as a rare opportunity to delay the inevitable Tatar attack on Moscow. Eventually, Alexius succumbs and, accompanied by Jani Beg's retainers Timer (Fedot Lvo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena (2011 Film)
''Elena'' (russian: Елена) is a 2011 Russian crime drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. Plot The film depicts the social and cultural distance between the inhabitants of an exclusive apartment in downtown Moscow and a crumbling ''khrushchevka'' in Moscow's industrial suburb. Elena is a woman with a proletarian background who meets Vladimir, an elderly business tycoon, in a hospital when she is his nurse. This meeting eventually results in their marriage. Her social position and social rank are substantially increased by the marriage to such a wealthy man. Elena's son from a previous marriage is poor and wants money from Vladimir to send his 17-year-old son to university, keeping him out of the compulsory military service. Her son and his family live in a crumbling apartment in the industrial suburb. After being approached by Elena, Vladimir makes it cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Souls
''Silent Souls'' (Russian: Овся́нки, "The Buntings") is a 2010 Russian road drama film that was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival. It is based on a 2008 novella by Denis Osokin. The film was awarded the Golden Osella for best cinematography and a FIPRESCI award. It was considered a frontrunner for the Golden Lion, but did not win. However, it did win Best Screenplay (awarded to Denis Osokin) at the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot Aist is a middle-aged bachelor who leads a lonely life in the northern town of Neya. Like many of his neighbours, he identifies as a Meryan and strives to keep alive the reconstructed traditions of that culture. He acquires two Bunting birds. One day his boss, Miron, informs Aist of the death of his wife Tanya and demands his help disposing of the body without an autopsy. The pair spend quite some time washing her body and putting coloured threads in her p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edge (2010 Film)
''The Edge'' (russian: Край, translit. Kray) is a 2010 Russian historical drama film directed by Alexei Uchitel. The film was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was also selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist. Plot At the end of World War II, thousands of former Soviet POWs, repatriated from Germany, were sent to Siberia by Stalin, to be ‘re-educated.’ The Edge is set in one such labour camp, on the edge of a dense forest. Despite being a war hero, Ignat, a disgraced Red Army locomotive driver, is sent to the camp as punishment for destroying the fastest locomotive in the Soviet Union during a reckless race. Upon arrival at the camp, Ignat quickly establishes a reputation for devotion to the labor camp's own steam railway engine. The railway line goes no further west than the camp because a bridge was washed out just before the start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How I Ended This Summer
''How I Ended This Summer'' (russian: Как я провёл этим летом, translit. ''Kak ya provyol etim letom'') is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was critically acclaimed and garnered several awards and nominations; it was in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Meteorology student Pavel "Pasha" Danilov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) is spending the summer as an intern at an isolated, Soviet-era weather station on a remote Arctic island with only the older, experienced geophysicist Sergei Gulybin (Sergei Puskepalis) for company. Their sole job is to collect the weather and tide statistics every four hours on antiquated equipment, which they do in shifts, and report the readings by radio to the state meteorology center. Pasha is respectful and friendly, but he is afraid of the gruff Sergei, who is condescending to him, as he resents Pasha's temporary stay and is jealous that he knows how to ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stilyagi (film)
''Stilyagi'' (russian: Стиляги, also known as ''Hipsters'' in the English release) is a 2008 Russian romantic jukebox musical film directed by Valery Todorovsky and starring Anton Shagin and Oksana Akinshina. Set in mid-1950s Moscow, the film depicts the Soviet '' stilyagi'' subculture, along with their struggle for self-expression within the prevailing reality of the Soviet repression. ''Stilyagi'' has been featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, and the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it has been an audience favorite. It won the Audience Choice Award at the Anchorage International Film Festival in 2009 and several Golden Eagle Awards and Nika Awards, including Best Film in both. In Russia, it has become a cult film, as most of its score consists of covers of 1980s and 1990s Russian rock music from bands such as Bravo, Nautilus Pompilius, Nol and the Red Elvises. It received generally positive reviews from critics. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inhabited Island
''Dark Planet'' (russian: Обитаемый остров, Obitaemyy ostrov, ''The Inhabited Island'') is a two-part Russian science fiction film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. The film was adapted by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko from the 1969 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky of the same Russian name, published in English as ''Prisoners of Power''; a part of the Noon Universe series. It is a dystopian story set on post-apocalyptic planet Saraksh, ruled by a totalitarian regime that brainwashes its citizens. Maxim Kammerer, a space explorer from Earth, crash-lands on Saraksh and becomes involved in the planet's everboiling politics. The movie was released as two separate films, in December 2008 and April 2009, respectively. The film was met with mixed reviews. It was praised for its visual style, social commentary and being faithful to the original novel, but also criticized for its direction, editing, and casting. ''Dark Planet'' was made with one of the largest budgets for Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Admiral (2008 Film)
''Admiral'' (russian: Адмиралъ; stylized to resemble pre-revolutionary Russian, modern spelling: russian: Адмирал) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a vice admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poet Anna Timiryova. An extended version of the movie was made into a 10-part TV mini-series which was shown by Channel One in 2009. Plot During the production of ''War and Peace'' at Mosfilm in 1964, an elderly Russian noblewoman is set to appear as an extra. The film's political commissar demands her dismissal, but director Sergei Bondarchuk is adamant she stays. In 1916, Captain Alexander Kolchak's ship is laying naval mines in the Baltic Sea when they are blocked by of the Imperial German Navy. Kolchak leads his men in Russian Orthodox prayers for protection as they lure the German ship towards th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 (2007 Film)
''12'' is a 2007 legal drama film by Russian director, screenwriter, producer and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film is a Russian-language remake of Sidney Lumet's 1957 film ''12 Angry Men'', which in turn was based on Reginald Rose's 1955 stage play, ''Twelve Angry Men'', itself based on Rose's 1954 teleplay of the latter's same name. Mikhalkov was awarded the Special Lion at the 64th Venice International Film Festival for his work on the film, which also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot A 12-men jury decides whether a young Chechen boy is guilty of the murder of his stepfather, a Russian military officer. Initially it seems that the boy was the murderer. However, one of the jurors, a foreman, votes in favour of acquittal. Since the verdict must be rendered unanimously, the jurors review the case, and one by one come to the conclusion that the boy was framed. The murder was performed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
