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Pavel Lungin
Pavel Semyonovich Lungin (russian: Па́вел Семёнович Лунги́н; born 12 July 1949) is a Russian film director. He is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine (as in the American release of '' Tycoon''). Lungin was awarded the distinction People's Artist of Russia in 2008. Life and career Born on 12 July 1949 in Moscow, Lungin is the son of the scriptwriter Semyon Lungin and linguist Lilianna Lungina. He later attended Moscow State University at the Mathematics and Applied Linguistics of the Philological Faculty, from which he graduated in 1971. In 1980 he completed the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (Mikhail Lvovsky's Workshop). Lungin worked primarily as a scriptwriter until given the opportunity to direct ''Taxi Blues'' at age 40. The film starred well-known musician Pyotr Mamonov. For the film he received the Best Director Prize at 1990 Cannes Film Festival. That same year he took up residence in France, while making films in and about Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Cannes Film Festival
The 45th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 18 May 1992. The Palme d'Or went to the '' Den goda viljan'' by Bille August. The festival opened with ''Basic Instinct'', directed by Paul Verhoeven and closed with ''Far and Away'', directed by Ron Howard. Juries Main competition The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1992 feature film competition: *Gérard Depardieu (France) Jury President *John Boorman (United Kingdom) *Carlo Di Palma (Italy) *Jamie Lee Curtis (USA) * Joële Van Effenterre (France) *Lester James Peries (Sri Lanka) *Nana Djordjadze (Georgia) *Pedro Almodóvar (Spain) *René Cleitman (France) *Serge Toubiana (France) Camera d'Or The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1992 Camera d'Or: * André Delvaux (director) (Belgium) President * David Meeker (foreign delegate) (United Kingdom) * Gérard Mordillat (director) (France) * Gian Piero Brunetta (journalist) (Italy) * Joao Lopes (journalist) (Portugal) * Olivier Bauer (actor) (Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island (2006 Film)
''The Island'' (russian: Остров, Ostrov) is a 2006 Russian film about a fictional 20th century Eastern Orthodox monk. The film closed the 2006 Venice Film Festival, proved to be a moderate box-office success and won both the Nika Award and the China TV Golden Eagle Award as the Best Russian film of 2006. The filming location was the city of Kem, in Karelia, on the shores of the White Sea. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot During World War II, the sailor Anatoly and his captain, Tikhon, are captured by the Germans when they board their barge and tugboat, which is carrying a shipment of coal. The German officer leading the raid offers Anatolywho is terrified of dyingthe choice to be shot or to shoot Tikhon and stay alive, which Anatoly takes; he shoots, and Tikhon falls overboard. The Germans blow up the ship but Anatoly is found by Russian Orthodox monks on the shore the next morning. He survives and becomes a stoker at the monastery but is perpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Khabensky
Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR (russian: link=no, Константин Юрьевич Хабенский; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist. From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre cast until 2000, after which he transferred to the Moscow Art Theatre in 2002 where he is still active. Khabensky's first lead roles in cinema were in ''Women's Property'' (1999) and in the film '' In Motion'' (2002). Among the Russian audience he gained recognition with the TV series '' Deadly Force'' (2002-2005), while his international breakthrough came with the films ''Night Watch'' (2004) and '' Day Watch'' (2006) as the protagonist, Anton Gorodetsky. Other notable films with him in the lead role include '' Poor Relatives'' (2005), '' The Irony of Fate 2'' (2007), '' Collector'' (2016), TV series '' Pyotr Leschenko. Everything That Was...'' (2013), '' The Method'' (2015) and ''Trotsky'' (2017). One of the most acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTV (Russia)
NTV (Cyrillic: НТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television channel that was launched as a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company . Since 14 April 2001 Gazprom Media controls the network. NTV has no official meaning according to Igor Malashenko, the author of the name and co-founder of the company, but in the 1990s unofficial transcripts of the acronym include "New" (''Novoje''), "Independent" (''Nezavisimoje''), "Non-governmental" (''Negosudarstvennoje''), "Our" (''Nashe''). History Vladimir Gusinsky founded NTV broadcasting in October 1993 on channel 4 moving to channel 5 in January 1994. He attracted talented journalists and news anchors of the time such as Tatiana Mitkova, Leonid Parfyonov, Mikhail Osokin, Yevgeniy Kiselyov, Vladimir A. Kara-Murza, Victor Shenderovich and others. The channel set high professional standards in Russian television, broadcasting live coverage and sharp analysis of current events. Starting before the dissolution of Soviet Union as Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Case Of "Dead Souls"
''The Case of "Dead Souls"'' (russian: Дело о «Мёртвых душах», Delo o «Myortvykh dushakh») is a 2005 Russian television miniseries directed by Pavel Lungin loosely based on various stories by Nikolai Gogol, including '' Dead Souls''. Plot The collegiate registrar Ivan Shiller ( Pavel Derevyanko) is sent to the provincial city of N to investigate the disappearance of fraudster Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Konstantin Khabensky) from prison. He is obstructed by city officials who are led by Governor A.A. Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky (Sergei Garmash). After going through the investigation through a series of meetings of strange encounters, Schiller himself turns into Chichikov in the finale... Cast * Pavel Derevyanko - Ivan Afanasievich Shiller * Konstantin Khabensky - Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov / tailor * Sergei Garmash - Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, Governor * Nina Usatova - Anna Andreevna, wife of the governor * Sergei Kolesnikov - bailiff Christian Stepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinotavr
Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.Official website retrieved on 2018-05-14. Alexander Rodnyansky said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us." From 1994 to 2005 the festival consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF). As of 2008 it was the largest n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Relatives
''Poor Relatives'' (russian: Бедные родственники, Bednye Rodstvenniki), also released as ''Roots'', is a 2005 Russian black comedy film directed by Pavel Lungin. The film tells the story of a Russian grifter who defrauds foreigners by introducing them to ordinary people hired to pose as long lost relatives. Plot Young con artist with a rather nice personality, Edik (Konstantin Khabensky) gets in trouble gathering long lost foreign relatives together. Wealthy and middle-class émigrés who have made it in the new lands (the Americas, Israel) return to the homeland, to the roots from which they were severed. The implicit motivation for their return is the search for spiritual nourishment, and so the émigrés sacrifice the material comforts of their villas and Western civilization to journey to their ancestral past, the timeless village of Golotvin. They believe that here they will be able to complete themselves by reconnecting with their heritage. All for the nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor. In a market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by owners of wealth, property, or ability to maneuver capital or production ability in capital and financial markets—whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets. Economists, historians, political economists and sociologists have adopted different perspectives in their analyses of capitalism and have recognized various forms of it in practice. These include ''laissez-faire'' or free-market capitalism, anarcho-capitalism, state capitalism and welfare capitalism. Different forms of capitalism feature varying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the only President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s. Gorbachev was born in Privolnoye, Russian SFSR, to a poor peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian heritage. Growing up under the rule of Joseph Stalin, in his youth he operated combine harvesters on a collective farm before joining the Communist Party, which then governed the Soviet Union as a one-party state. Studying at Moscow State University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding (2000 Film)
''The Wedding'' (russian: Свадьба, Svadba, french: La noce) is a 2000 French-Russian comedy film directed by Pavel Lungin. It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. The film was the Aurora Award winner at the Tromsø International Film Festival in 2001. Plot Tanya returns to her hometown after working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry Mishka. A series of unexpected events arise during the process. Cast * Marat Basharov as Mishka * Mariya Mironova as Tanya * Andrey Panin as Garkusha * Aleksander Semchev as Borzov (as Aleksandr Semchev) * Vladimir Simonov as Borodin * Mariya Golubkina as Sveta * Natalya Kolyakanova as Rimma * Yelena Novikova as Zoika * Oleg Esaulenko as Svetlanov * Marina Golub as Café manager * Vladimir Kashpur as Grandfather * Nadezhda Markina as Valka * Aleksei Panin * Galina Petrova as Mother * Pavel Polmatov as Tolya * Ilya Rutberg as Kamussidi * Vladimir Salnikov Vladimir Valeryevich Salnikov (russian: Владими ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Cannes Film Festival
The 53rd Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 25 May 2000. French film director, screenwriter, and producer Luc Besson was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Danish film '' Dancer in the Dark'' by Lars von Trier. The festival opened with '' Vatel'', directed by Roland Joffé and closed with ''Stardom'', directed by Denys Arcand. Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies. Juries Main competition The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2000 Official Selection: * Luc Besson (France) Jury President * Jonathan Demme (United States) * Nicole Garcia (France) * Jeremy Irons (United Kingdom) * Mario Martone (Italy) * Patrick Modiano (France) * Arundhati Roy (India) * Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (Spain) * Kristin Scott Thomas (United Kingdom) * Barbara Sukowa (Germany) Un Certain Regard The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 2000 Un Certain Regard: *Jane Birkin (actress) * Jan Schulz-Ojala * José M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
