Valentin Piganov (Cinematographer)
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Works
Empire is Under Attack
In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.
Release Date2000-10-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
The Most Charming and Attractive
Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around.
Release Date1985-11-10
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count65
The Woman in White
A detective-mystery film based on the novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins, which takes place in the middle of the last century in Victorian England. The young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white on a deserted road...
Release Date1981-02-15
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Mary Poppins, Goodbye
A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
Release Date1983-06-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count46
Made in USSR
An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...
Release Date1991-08-15
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
Faithfulness We Pledge
Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
Release Date1989-03-27
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Wolfhound
A crime drama about Victoria - a young detective who finds that her first love is actually a criminal.
Release Date1991-01-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count3
Candidate
Based on novel "The Great Man" by Al Morgan. Ted Stevens receives a task to prepare a TV special about his colleague Tony Bradley, recently died in car accident. But the further he studies this case, the more suspicious this accident is becoming.
Release Date1987-08-04
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Moscow Love
An adventurous melodrama about a classic love triangle: a poor man, a wealthy bank director, and Katya — young, yet wise beyond her years.
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Comedy of Lysistrata
Lysistrata led the women of ancient Greece in forcing men to stop the war, that was devastating the land for 21 years. At secret assembly of the women delegates from both sides of the conflict, Lysistrata declared: "We must refrain from the male altogether - till the men come to terms of peace". Her instruction to every wife or mistress was to refuse all sexual favors whatsoever, and sit prettily dressed in best transparent silks, till the men yield to peace.
Release Date1989-06-09
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count8
Moscow Suburbs Elegy
While people's artist of the USSR Sergey Cherkassky "fights" with the role of king Lear, trying to understand the psychology and actions of Shakespeare's character, his own large family presents him with one riddle after another. His daughter Elena, who broke off her unsuccessful marriage, falls in love with rock musician Dean Makarov. The grandfather does not know that the son of his late daughter - in-law Sonia is gay, who is madly in love with the same Dean. All Sonya's daughter, Lala, "twists" the love with a student Vakhtangov school, the future actor Misha, but dreams of a luxurious life abroad. Son of Sergei Andreevich, father of Vitya and Lyali - Andrey - General, Hero of Russia, serving in Chechnya.
Release Date2002-12-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count8
Infinity
Fifty-year-old Vladimir Ivanovich Prokhorov, relieved of his worldly possessions, takes a journey back in time. Accompanied by a traveling companion barely half his age, he revisits the people and places of his youth and witnesses the dark forces that shaped the 20th century.
Release Date1993-06-10
DepartmentCamera
JobAdditional Director of Photography
Vote Count13
Larisa
Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.
Release Date1980-10-01
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count22
Anna Karenina
The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.
Release Date1975-10-18
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count6
Break Point
A touching love story of two pupils of the famous European tennis school - the Russian girl Asya and the Croatian Duchamp - who unexpectedly find themselves with a difficult choice: a sports career in the name of fame and international recognition or high, bright feelings ...
Release Date2004-09-18
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Dangerous Friends
The cruel laws of the zone, whose inhabitants are divided into hierarchical clans, dictate their own conditions of behavior. The head of the institution, Major Kalinin, sees prisoners not so much as criminals, but as people who have stumbled in life, and tries to give everyone a chance to improve. But not everyone accepts his position...
Release Date1980-01-28
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Scenic Adventure
Maxim Ilyin, an expert in the field of painting, a consultant for fashion magazines, a loner and a misanthrope, agrees to pose for the young artist. They make an appointment, but on the appointed day the girl does not come.
Release Date2007-03-28
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Purification
The film is based on the story by L. Andreev "The Life of Vasily of Thebes" about the fate of the village priest Vasily, who, after going through a great many misfortunes, renounces God in order to regain his true faith through even greater grief.
Release Date1990-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
From Evening to Noon
The events that take place from the evening of one day, until the afternoon of the next, radically change the life of the family of the elderly writer Zharkov.
Release Date1982-02-02
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Mary Poppins, Goodbye
Mary Poppins, Goodbye is a Soviet 1983 two-part musical miniseries, directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze. It is loosely based on Mary Poppins stories by Pamela L. Travers. The TV series were ordered by the Gosteleradio of USSR and produced by Mosfilm. The official television premier was on January 8, 1984.
Release Date1984-01-08
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Success
A drama about a complicated life of a director in a small provincial theater.
Release Date1984-06-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count8