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“IN THE FOG” by SERGEI LOZNITSA IS NOMINATED FOR THE PALM D’OR. «IN THE FOG» is a co-production between MA.JA.DE Fiction (Germany), GP Film Company (Russia), Rija Films (Latvia), Lemming Film (The Netherlands) and Belarusfilm (Belarus).
“IN THE FOG” by Sergei Loznitsa has become the only Russian language feature film in the official selection of the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
“I am absolutely delighted with this news! I wish to thank Festival de Cannes for their continuous support of my work and I also wish to thank my wonderful crew. Presenting one’s film in Cannes is an honour and a great responsibility. I am happy that my vision of cinema is shared and understood by those whose opinion I very much respect,” – says SERGEI LOZNITSA.
The action of the WWII drama, based on the novel by the Belorussian writer Vassily Bykov, takes place on the German occupied western frontiers of the USSR in 1942. A village railway worker, Sushenya (actor Vladimir Svirski), is wrongly accused of being a collaborator, and two partisans arrive from the forest to get revenge. When Sushenya attempts to prove his innocence, his humanity is put to the ultimate test, and he is forced to make a moral choice under immoral circumstances.
Launched in production the 4-episode-film "Process"
[b]Scripts: Nataliya Sirivlya, with participation of Larisa Stepanova
Director: Aleksander Efremov
Camera-man: Aleksander Rud'
General producer: Galina Sementseva
Producer : Valentina Mikhalyova, Lev Karakhan
Format: 4 episodes
Actors:
Anna Snatkina
Igor Vernik
Emiliya Spivak
Pavel Barshak
Alena Yakovleva
Anna Kamenkova
Remigius Sabulis
The shooting of the serial under the working title «Furtseva. Ekaterina’s legend» was finished on November 15-th.
GP Group, in partnership with TV CHANNEL I, is currently working on a new TV-movie project. This is going to be a multi-episode cinedrama dedicated to Ekaterina Furtseva, one of the most outstanding leaders in the Soviet history.
Her life was notably rich in events. Her life path - from being a “cinderella” weaver from a small distant village up to her becoming a Governor of Moscow, the member of the USSR Government, and country’s the Minister of Culture - was so meandering, unpredictable and dramatic, and her death was so mysterious, that it seems difficult now to distinguish her genuine biography from rumours, fantasies and legends.
All through the twelve episodes of the film, the audience will have a chance to indulge in the development of the main intrigue, and to emotionally follow up the story of a naturally strong, independent and audacious woman who fought to construe her simple female happiness, to love and to be loved in turn, to build a family of her own, and to find true friends. As the story carries on, the spectators will see how the heroine’s attempts eventually came nowhere because of her restless strive for power and leadership.
A whole bouquet of events, whether tragiñ or joyful, which took place both in Katia’s private life and in the life of the entire country during almost five decades; complicated relationships with husbands, her mother and her daughter; encounters and break-ups with those men that she happened to shed a womanly love on, and those who compounded her ‘party comrades gang’; her own treasons, delusions and blunders; her triumphs and defeats – all this kaleidoscope will be highlighted in a lively historical dramatic reconstruction.
The series presents to us an opportunity to dive into the astonishing times, and to explore an unbelievably bright character acting in the limelight against a background of various leading historical figures, such as Stalin and Khruschev, Zhukov and Brezhnev, Oleg Yefremov and Liudmila Zykina.
Scripts: Larisa Stepanova, Pavel Finn
Director: Sergey Popov
Format: 12 episodes * 52 min. each.
Actors:
• Ekaterina Furtseva – Irina Rozanova
• Katya Furtseva - Tatyana Arntgolts
• Firubin – Aleksandr Domogarov
• Petr - Maksim Averin
• Matrena Nikolaevna – Nina Usatova
• Hrucshev – Viktor Suhorukov
• Boguslavskiy – Viniamin Smehov
• Svetlana – Ekaterina Vilkova
• Stalin – Gennady Hazanov
• Nikita – Anatoly Beliy
• Brezhnev – Artur Vaha
• Beriya – Vyacheslav Grishechkin
• Aristov – Anatoly Goryachev
• Kozlov – Boris Kamorzin
• Kozlova – Maria Kuznetsova
• Zhukov – Valery Barinov
[/b]“IN THE FOG” by SERGEI LOZNITSA IS NOMINATED FOR THE PALM D’OR. The joint production of GP Group of companies MA.JA.DE Fiction (Germany), GP Film Company (Russia), Rija Films (Latvia), Lemming Film (The Netherlands), Belarusfilm (Belarus) and ZDF/ARTE.
“IN THE FOG” by Sergei Loznitsa has become the only Russian language feature film in the official selection of the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
“I am absolutely delighted with this news! I wish to thank Festival de Cannes for their continuous support of my work and I also wish to thank my wonderful crew. Presenting one’s film in Cannes is an honour and a great responsibility. I am happy that my vision of cinema is shared and understood by those whose opinion I very much respect,” – says SERGEI LOZNITSA.
The action of the WWII drama, based on the novel by the Belorussian writer Vassily Bykov, takes place on the German occupied western frontiers of the USSR in 1942. A village railway worker, Sushenya (actor Vladimir Svirski), is wrongly accused of being a collaborator, and two partisans arrive from the forest to get revenge. When Sushenya attempts to prove his innocence, his humanity is put to the ultimate test, and he is forced to make a moral choice under immoral circumstances.
[b]On the Premier Of “Desire” on TV
The film “Desire” reached the head line of the recent TV charts (rating up to 8.9%, with the share of audience up to 22.3%). The romantic quadro ensemble was played immaculately by Maria Mironova, Ekaterina Vilkova, Anatoliy Beliy and Alexander Baluyev. The wide public was almost unanimous in its warm attitudes toward the film, which is a rare instance today.
“Thanks a lot for the film!!! It pulls a string in the soul, that was once firmly forgotten or was long hidden inside… There is no one to blame, and not a single character is bad there,” – one of the forum’s readers comments.
“I watched the film in my mom’s company. She was mostly worrying for the character played by Ekaterina Vilkova. I was rather a supporter of Masha Mironova – she is so nice, that one can take pleasure by simply watching her clever charms. What I would really say to that – “Well, good film-makers do exist even in our times.” The majority of the reviews aired the similar feelings at the Inet forum.
source http://www.newsru.com/cinema/20jan2010/obzor.html
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