|
Parallel Voices
''Parallel Voices'' (russian: Вокальные параллели, Vokaldy paralelder ) is a 2005 Kazakhstani musical drama film written and directed by Rustam Khamdamov. It was the first film directed by Khamdamov after a 14 years hiatus. It was entered into the Horizons section at the 62nd edition of the Venice Film Festival. Plot A group of Russian artists met in a desolate hangar, where they will alternate classical arias and discussions about the sense of life. Cast * Renata Litvinova Renata Muratovna Litvinova (russian: Рената Муратовна Литвинова; born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter. Biography Litvinova was born in Moscow to Volga Tatar father Murat Aminovic ... as herself * as herself * Bibigul Tulegenova as herself * Erik Kurmangaliev as himself * as herself References External links * Kazakhstani drama films 2000s musical drama films 2005 drama films 2005 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustam Khamdamov
Rustam Usmanovich Khamdamov (russian: Руста́м Усма́нович Хамда́мов, born 24 May 1944 in Tashkent) is a Soviet and Russian film director and artist. His film ''Anna Karamazoff'' (1991) was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography * 1967 — In the Mountains of My Heart (short; student film, at VGIK) * 1974 — Unintentional Pleasures (unfinished) * 1991 — Anna Karamazoff * 2005 — Parallel Voices * 2010 — Diamonds (short) * 2010 — The Nutcracker in 3D, as costume designer * 2017 — The Bottomless Bag ''The Bottomless Bag'' (russian: Мешок без дна, Meshok bez dna) is a 2017 Russian historical drama film directed by Rustam Khamdamov. The film is based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's 1922 story In a Grove which takes place during the times of ... References External links * Статьи о Рустаме Хамдамове на сайте журнала «Сеанс» Soviet film directors Russian film directors 1944 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Litvinova
Renata Muratovna Litvinova (russian: Рената Муратовна Литвинова; born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter. Biography Litvinova was born in Moscow to Volga Tatar father Murat Aminovich Vergazov and a Russian mother, Alisa Mikhailovna Litvinova. Both her parents were doctors. They divorced when Renata was just one year old. After school, she entered VGIK in 1984 and graduated in 1989. She attended the same year as fellow screenwriters and directors Roman Kachanov and Arkady Vysotsky. It is here where she worked on her first film as a screenwriter for the film ''The Much Loved Rita. The Last Meeting with Her'' (1988). Career Screenwriter She began her film career as a screenwriter, writing films from 1988 to 1998. None of her earlier projects such as ''Truck Drivers 2'' (1992) achieved any critical or commercial acclaim. She was discovered by fellow director Kira Muratova in 1994 after Muratova had come across Litvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Kurmangaliev
Erik Kurmangaliev (January 2, 1959 – November 13, 2007) was a Russian- Kazakh opera singer, actor and a leading public figure in Russia's perestroika music scene. Early life Kurmangaliev was born in Kazakhstan, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He attended a music conservatory in the city of Almaty, and later transferred to the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. He was known for an unusual countertenor voice. Career Kurmangaliev debuted in 1980 at the Leningrad Philharmonia. He later performed in Alfred Shnitke's Second Symphony and ''Dr. Faust'' cantata during his career. His career reached his peak when he teamed up with director Roman Viktyuk in the early 1990s, when he appeared in the Russian language version of David Hwang's ''M. Butterfly''. Kurmangaliev made his last appearance in film appearance in Rustam Khamdamov's ''Parallel Voices ''Parallel Voices'' (russian: Вокальные параллели, Vokaldy paralelder ) is a 2005 Kazakhsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Mokritskiy
Sergey Evgenievich Mokritskiy (, born February 18, 1961) is a Russian film director and cinematographer of Ukrainian origin. Filmography As director * ''The Four Ages of Love'' (2008) * ''Cherchill'' (2009) * ''Teacher's Day'' (2012) * ''Battle for Sevastopol'' (2015) * ''I Am a Teacher'' (2016) * ''A Rough Draft (film), A Rough Draft'' (2018) * ''First Oscar'' (2022) As cinematographer * ''The Smell of Autumn'' (1993) * ''All the Things We Dreamt of for So Long'' (1997) * ''Killer's Diary'' (2003) * ''Parallel Voices'' (2005) * ''Shift'' (2006) * ''Playing the Victim (film), Playing the Victim'' (2006) * ''Anna German. Echo of Love'' (2011) * ''My Dad Baryshnikov'' (2011) * ''Afganistan. Point of no Return'' (2012) * ''Without Witnesses'' (2012) * ''Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes'' (2014) * ''I Am a Teacher'' (2016) As scriptwriter * ''Teacher's Day'' (2012) * ''Battle for Sevastopol'' (2015) * ''A Rough Draft (film), A Rough Draft'' (2018) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Martynov
Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres. Life Vladimir Martynov studied piano as a child. Gaining an interest in composition, he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory where he studied piano under Mikhail Mezhlumov and composition under Nikolai Sidelnikov, graduating in 1971. In his early works, such as the String Quartet (1966), the Concerto for oboe and flute (1968), Hexagramme for piano (1971), and Violin sonata (1973), Vladimir Martynov used serial music (or twelve-tone) technique. In 1973 he got a job at the studio for electronic music of the Alexander Scriabin Museum. For Soviet composers of this era, this studio had much the same meaning as the RAI Electronic Music Studio in Milan, the West German Radio studio, and the ORTF Studio in Paris, providing a meeting ground fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazakhfilm
Kazakhfilm ( kk, Қазақфильм, ''Qazaqfilm'', pronounced ; russian: Казахфильм) is a Kazakh film studio located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. History The film studio was founded in 1934 as the Alma-Ata newsreel studio, in 1936 the first documentaries were released. On November 15, 1941, the Alma-Ata film studio merged with the Mosfilm and Lenfilm film studios evacuated to Kazakhstan to the Central United Film Studio - TsOKS, which worked in Alma-Ata until 1944 and produced 80% of all domestic feature films during the war. On January 9, 1960, from the Alma-Ata film studio of feature and newsreel films, it was renamed into the Kazakhfilm film studio. In 1984 the film studio was named after the outstanding figure of national cinematography Shaken Kenzhetayevich Aimanov. In 2005, KazakhFilm launched its first big production, ''Nomad'', which involved investments in technology and talent amounting to $37 million. This boosted the domestic film industry. ''Nomad'' was follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
62nd Venice International Film Festival
The 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival opened on 31 August 2005 with Tsui Hark's ''Seven Swords'' and closed on 10 September 2005 with a screening of Peter Ho-sun Chan's musical '' Perhaps Love''. The lineups were announced by the festival director Marco Müller on 28 July 2005 in Rome. The digital films can compete in all categories for the first time of the festival history. Asian filmmaking confirmed its vitality, and with this year's most important works demonstrated that it had once again been capable of challenging the most intelligent spectacular effects from Hollywood. Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli were each awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The Golden Lion was won by ''Brokeback Mountain''. During this edition of the festival, an International Design Competition of the new Palazzo del Cinema took place. The winner of the competition was ''5+1 & Rudy Ricciotti''. The purpose of the new bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IndieWire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming." IndieWire is part of Penske Media. History The original IndieWire newsletter launched on July 15, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for independent film." Following in the footsteps of various web- and AOL-based editorial ventures, IndieWire was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by New York- and Los Angeles-based filmmakers and writers Eugene Hernandez, Mark Rabinowitz, Cheri Barner, Roberto A. Quezada, and Mark L. Feinsod. Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997. In January 1997, IndieWire made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria
In music, an aria (Italian: ; plural: ''arie'' , or ''arias'' in common usage, diminutive form arietta , plural ariette, or in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work. The typical context for arias is opera, but vocal arias also feature in oratorios and cantatas, or they can be stand-alone concert arias. The term was originally used to refer to any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. Etymology The Italian term ''aria'', which derives from the Greek ἀήρ and Latin ''aer'' (air), first appeared in relation to music in the 14th century when it simply signified a manner or style of singing or playing. By the end of the 16th century, the term 'aria' refers to an instrumental form (cf. Santino Garsi da Parma lute works, 'Aria del Gran Duca'). By the early 16th century it was in common use as meaning a simple setting of strophic poetry; me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibigul Tulegenova
Bibigul Akhmetkyzy Tulegenova (, ''Bibıgül Ahmetqyzy Tölegenova''; born 16 December 1929) is a Soviet-Kazakh opera singer (lyric and coloratura soprano), actress and teacher. Among her awards are Hero of Socialist Labor (1991), People's Artist of the USSR (1967), and the USSR State Prize (1970). Kazinform (2 December 2019)"‘Kazakh Nightingale’ Bibigul Tulegenova to celebrate her 90th anniversary at Astana Opera" Retrieved 17 December 2019. Early life Tulegenova was born in Semipalatinsk (modern Semey, East Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan).Тулегенова Бибигуль Ахметовна // Большая советская энциклопедия (''Great Soviet Encyclopedia''): 30 т./ под ред. А. М. Прохоров — 3-е изд. — М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1969. English version"Tulegenova, Bibigul’ Akhmetovna" retrieved 17 December 2019. She grew up in a musical family. Her father loved to play the violin and her Tata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> 62nd Venice International Film Festival")
