Andrei Konchalovsky

Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Russian: Андре́й Серге́евич Михалко́в-Кончало́вский; born 20 August 1937, Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, producer and theater, TV director, who works in Russia and USA. His father was the writer Sergey Mikhalkov (1913) and the brother of Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), who is also a well known Russian filmmaker. Andrei Konchalovsky was a frequent collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky (1932) earlier in his career. His work has won numerous accolades, including the "Cannes Grand Prix Spécial du Jury", a "FIPRESCI Award", two "Silver Lions", three "Golden Eagle Awards", and a "Primetime Emmy Award". He studied for ten years at the Moscow Conservatory, preparing for a pianist's career. In 1960, however, he met Andrei Tarkovsky and co-scripted his movie Andrei Rublev (1966). His first full-length feature, The First Teacher (1964), was favourably received in the Soviet Union and screened by numerous film festivals abroad. His second film, Asya Klyachina's Story (1967), was suppressed by Soviet authorities. When issued twenty years later, it was acclaimed as his masterpiece. Thereupon, Konchalovsky filmed adaptations of Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of Gentle Folk (1969) and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1970), with Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the title role. His epic Siberiade upon its 1979 release was favourably received at Cannes and made possible his move to the United States in 1980. His most popular Hollywood releases are Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), based on a script by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and Tango & Cash (1989), starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. In the 1990s, Konchalovsky returned to Russia, although he occasionally produced historical films for U.S. television, such as his adaption of The Odyssey (1997) and the award-winning remake, The Lion in Winter (2003). Konchalovsky's full-length feature, House of Fools (2003), with a cameo role by Bryan Adams as himself, set in a Chechen psychiatric asylum during the war, won him a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Konchalovsky released a longtime passion project of his, The Nutcracker in 3D, a musical adaptation of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet. A musical film, it mixed live action and 3D animation, and starred Elle Fanning, John Turturro, Nathan Lane, and Richard E. Grant. The film was scored with music from the ballet, with additional lyrics by Tim Rice. In 2012, Konchalovsky wrote, directed and produced "The Battle for Ukraine", which provided an in depth analysis of how Ukraine to this day struggles to escape from the close embrace of its former big brother. His film "The Postman's White Nights" won the Silver Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. The script is centred around the true story of Aleksey Tryaptisyn, a real life postman based in a remote Russian village surrounding the Kenozero lake. In 2016 "Paradise" directed by him won the Silver Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. In 2020 at the 77th Venice film festival, his film "Dear Comrades" won a special jury prize.

Works

Lena and Justice

In almost any city in Russia, you can find a square with a bust of Lenin, stuffed bears in reputable mansions, and shops can easily offer a "sanction". Only with justice everything is a little more complicated, but, as you know, it is better to contact the Carpenter with this issue. Lena is an ordinary woman who secretly dreams of a beautiful wedding, but her chosen one by chance lost his passport and now, instead of the registry office, he ends up in the police station with enviable frequency. And it has already become a good tradition that she rescues him, raising the material status of some interested persons. However, Lena is a woman with a strong character and is ready to fight for her happiness, love and justice every day.

Release Date: 2022-08-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

Homo Sperans

“Homo Sperans” is a portrait of a Russian person composed of many images. The film's heroes are common men who answer with their lives the universal questions: what is the purpose of our existence, what is happiness, what is it to be a patriot. Their strength is in their ability to keep their chins up and always believe in a good outcome.

Release Date: 2020-10-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Dear Comrades!

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

Release Date: 2020-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 139

Sin

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Release Date: 2019-11-14

Department: Crew

Job: Script

Vote Count: 76

Alone Anthology

The "Alone Anthologyc" is a project of the Andrey Konchalovsky film company that combines short films of various genres by seven aspiring Directors who reflect on what happens when a person is left alone with himself.

Release Date: 2019-06-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Faith

An old widower, former WW2 radio operator, perceives flashing bulb as his late wife's messages from Heaven. His love will never die even when the lights are gone.

Release Date: 2017-08-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The Bottomless Bag

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circumstances. Fairy tale characters who have witnessed the terrible death, all share their version of the events, gradually shedding light on what really happened.

Release Date: 2017-06-27

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 6

My Dear Uncle

The author of the film comes to his Russian uncle Sasha in the German province and helps him in the relentless search for the woman with whom he could live.

Release Date: 2017-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Paradise

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.

Release Date: 2016-09-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 45

The Postman's White Nights

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.

Release Date: 2014-10-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 43

Royal Paintbox

HRH The Prince of Wales reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of rarely seen art by members of the Royal Family past and present, exploring a colorful palette of intimate family memory and observation. Filmed at Balmoral, Highgrove, Windsor Castle, Frogmore, and Osborne House, Royal Paintbox features art by members of the Royal Family down the centuries including some of HRH The Prince of Wales's own watercolors.

Release Date: 2014-03-01

Department: Production

Job: Co-Producer

Battle for Ukraine

In the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky, the famous Russian director, analyzes how Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country, struggles to escape from the close embrace of the former big brother, Russia, and not to become one of the American satellites. This extensive study lasted for almost three years. Many Ukrainian, Russian and American historians, politicians and journalists took part in this study, as well as the ex-President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, the ex-President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, the ex-President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, the ex-Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the businessman Boris Berezovsky.

Release Date: 2012-11-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Nutcracker

In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

Release Date: 2010-11-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 194

The Last Station

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.

Release Date: 2009-09-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 222

The Demons of St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his comrades are planning another attack to the Tsar's life. Plagued by debts and struggling to finish his latest novel, Dostoevsky must act fast to call off the plot.

Release Date: 2008-04-24

Department: Writing

Job: Idea

Vote Count: 13

To Each His Own Cinema

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Release Date: 2007-10-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 141

Moscow Chill

Trouble seems to find Ray Perso, or maybe he just looks for it. First he's busted for hacking Manhattan's ATM banking system - sending twenties flying on every street corner. Then he's sprung from the Computer Rehab by a Russian gangster and smuggled to Moscow to work for an imprisoned "businessman". Maneuvering his way through the chaotic and violent Moscow Underworld, Ray finds love. But, his bliss is short-lived when he finds out someone has 40 million reasons to want him dead!

Release Date: 2007-10-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 11

Gloss

A pretty, young girl from a coal-mining town comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a supermodel in this satirical look at the fashion industry.

Release Date: 2007-06-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: beaten intellectual

Vote Count: 20

The Lion in Winter

King Henry II keeps his wife Eleanor locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to overthrow him. With Eleanor out of the way he can have his dalliances with his young mistress. Needless to say the queen is not pleased, although she still has affection for the king. Working through her sons, she plots the king's demise and the rise of her second and preferred son, Richard, to the throne. The youngest, John, is an overweight buffoon and the only one holding his father's affection is the king's choice after the death of his first son, young Henry. But John is also overly eager for power and is willing to plot his father's demise with middle brother Geoffrey and the young king of France, Phillip. Geoffrey sees his younger brother's weakness and sees that route as his path to power. Political and court intrigue ensues.

Release Date: 2003-12-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 23

House of Fools

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.

Release Date: 2002-12-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 45

White Lilac

The film novel directed by Andrey Konchalovsky and written by Yuri Nagibin tells about the life and creative path of the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Love and torment of creativity, periods of hopelessness and triumphs, longing for the Motherland and faith in its future, reflected in the composer's music, are intertwined in the novel with the tragic events in Russia of the first half of the twentieth century, with the fate of people close to Rachmaninoff...

Release Date: 2001-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Lumière & Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Release Date: 1995-12-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 67

Envy

About the composer Alexander Scriabin

Release Date: 1995-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Ryaba, My Chicken

In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen.

Release Date: 1994-05-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: клиент в парикмахерской (в титрах не указан)

Vote Count: 14

The Inner Circle

Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.

Release Date: 1992-02-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 36

The King of Ads

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

Release Date: 1991-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 10

Tango & Cash

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.

Release Date: 1989-12-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1977

Homer and Eddie

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Release Date: 1989-08-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 51

Shy People

A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

Release Date: 1987-05-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 20

Duet for One

When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.

Release Date: 1986-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 16

Runaway Train

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

Release Date: 1985-11-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 599

Maria's Lovers

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

Release Date: 1984-10-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 56

Split Cherry Tree

Split Cherry Tree is a 1982 short film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. A father learns the importance of education and gains an understanding of his son and an insight into his dreams and ambitions. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Release Date: 1982-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Siberiade

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

Release Date: 1979-11-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 40

Blood and Sweat

A film epic about the class struggle in a small fishing village on the shore of the Aral sea, about the revolutionary events that stirred up the steppe region. The civil war in the steppes of the Aral sea region is a concrete historical background on which the life of the heroes — Aral fishermen and nomadic pastoralists-unfolds. Three dramatic fates, three characters in the center of the story: the poor farmhand Elaman, who became the leader of the masses awakened by the revolution, Bai Tanibergen, the owner of the steppe, and the beautiful Akbala. Their relationship is not a banal "love triangle", it is a drama that reflects the complexity of the processes that took place in the pre-revolutionary period and during the revolution.

Release Date: 1979-04-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Trans-Siberian Express

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.

Release Date: 1977-04-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 5

A Slave of Love

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

Release Date: 1976-09-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 30

Romance for Lovers

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him. But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.

Release Date: 1974-11-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 16

The Fierce One

A boy raises a wolf cub, but when released into the wild, it returns to attack him.

Release Date: 1973-12-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8

The Seventh Bullet

Despite the restoration of Soviet power in the area, Basmachis continue to arrive from across the border, bringing death and destruction to peaceful villages. One of the bands of rebels is led by Khairulla who is pitted against the militsiya (local militia) leader Maxumov. At first it seems hopeless for Maxumov as the rebels capture most of his men, winning them over to his side. He has only one strategy left; to give himself up, and try to explain to the people that Khairulla has deceived them, turning the soldiers back to revolution. Later in pursuit of his enemy, he chases Khairulla across a river. He has only one bullet left -- the seventh, and he must not miss his target!

Release Date: 1973-04-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8

Unexpected Joy

Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.

Release Date: 1972-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Uncle Vanya

Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.

Release Date: 1970-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 26

The End of Ataman

A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.

Release Date: 1970-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

The Song of Manshuk

The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery. The film recreates the past and shows a day of combat life Manshuk and her comrades, who took unequal battle with German tanks.

Release Date: 1969-12-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

A Nest of Gentry

A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. After a long travel in Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns back home. Everything in his estate is so familiar and dear to his heart. On his first visit to his neighbors, the Kalitins, he meets Lisa. He forgets his wife, left in Paris, forgets all his past. He desires only one thing – to always be with Lisa who is so unlike the women he used to know.

Release Date: 1969-08-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 11

Tashkent, City of Bread

Beautifully shot in black and white, and scripted by Tarkovsky's collaborator Andrei Konchalovsky, this powerful melodrama tells the story of a young boy who undertakes the perilous journey to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, to earn some money for his hungry family. Filming in the periphery of the Soviet Union, in a time of relative political relaxation, director Shukhrat Abbasov actually dared to depict the poverty and famine that resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution.

Release Date: 1968-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry

Asya, a lame collective farmer, is in love with the father of her unborn child. However, he does not reciprocate, leaving her forced to choose between a loveless marriage to another suitor, or single motherhood.

Release Date: 1966-12-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 17

Andrei Rublev

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Release Date: 1966-12-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 859

The First Teacher

Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist doctrine to the remote Moslem area where elders did not allow children to go to school. He falls in love with one of his students, but the young woman is sold by her father to a wealthy chieftain. When the school is burned down, the majestic poplar trees that are a source of local pride are cut down to rebuild the new structure.

Release Date: 1965-10-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 21

The Steamroller and the Violin

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.

Release Date: 1961-12-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 140

The Boy and the Pigeon

The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.

Release Date: 1961-04-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

Russian Quarantine

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Look at Me!

Post-WWII Russia, industrial city of Sverdlovsk. Former opera singer and mother to four children, Nina Levitskaya knows nothing about the fate of her husband. Communist party functionary Alexander disappeared almost a year ago and is now rumored to be in Moscow. With life becoming increasingly hard for the family, Nina decides to risk it all in hope of a reunion. She hastily sells everything she can, gathers her children, and sets out for the capital.

Release Date: 2024-09-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Andrey Rublev. A Memory of the Film

About the creation of the film "Andrei Rublev", about its deep philosophical and artistic meaning, the figure of Andrei Rublev himself and about the influence of the great iconographer on the work of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Release Date: 2024-04-11

Vote Count: 1

Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey

The film “Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey” is a tribute to the creative path of one of our outstanding contemporaries, Andrey Konchalovsky, spanning from his debut film, “The Boy and the Dove”, which was immediately invited to the Venice International Film Festival, to the present day. The documentary features notable figures who starred in the master’s films, from Sergei Shakurov to Tom Holtz, from Inna Churikova to Irina Kupchenko. Dividing his work into ‘periods’ — classical, American, and the perestroika era — Konchalovsky, with the help of the cinema, embarks on a cinematic journey akin to Odysseus, ultimately returning to his own ‘Penelope’: Moscow.

Release Date: 2023-10-20

Age One Hundred

The first century of one of the most famous Moscow scenes has come to its logical conclusion. Now the theater is looking into the future, into a new century, but what does it see there? How does the theater feel, having crossed the century-old threshold?What is he thinking about? What is he talking about? Where is he going? What is the temperature of his "body"?

Release Date: 2023-06-28

Character: self

The Vanja Earthquake

Through the rehearsals and the tour of the show based on Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Vinicio Marchioni takes us to the Italian province destroyed by the earthquake and the places of the Russian writer. The Vanja earthquake starts from the Chekhovian masterpiece to investigate Italian post-earthquake immobility through the tragicomic gaze of Chekhov, making the public aware of the extraordinary human strength of the writer. A journey into the Italian theatrical creation; a journey in the earthquake that destroyed central Italy; a journey into the words and soul of Anton Chekhov.

Release Date: 2019-10-23

Russian Short. Issue 4

Five short films where reality and modern characters are presented in unusual genre settings. In the comedy "Good Afternoon", the courier witnesses an unpredictable family quarrel. "Africa" is the story of a rapidly maturing girl's return to her eccentric and eternally young mother. "Update/Delete" will record the existence of an ordinary passerby in the lenses of several cameras throughout the day, and the nascent revolutionary spirit in the drama "Aquathlon" will turn out tragically. In the "House on the Head of a Clausewertz", a house begins to grow on the head of a lonely person.

Release Date: 2019-07-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Revolution: New Art for a New World

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.

Release Date: 2017-03-08

Character: Self

Vote Count: 6

Tarkovsky: Time Within Time

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is widely regarded as one of the worlds' top directors- throughout history. TWT explores Tarkovsky through his diary and his articulate assessments on love, art, and the struggles working within the Soviet political system. Of his 7 ambitious films, 5 were made under the heavy hand of censors in the Soviet Union. In 1984 he defected to Italy with help from screenwriter Tonino Guerra, and Director Michelangelo Antonioni. He directed 2 films in the West until his untimely death in Paris at age 54. Narrated by Oleg Vidov, combined with a collection of rare film excerpts and photos, and interviews from people who knew him best, we take you on a passionate journey into the life, love, and work of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Release Date: 2015-10-26

Character: Self

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films

Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film company, Cannon Films. This documentary recounts their many successes and discusses their eventual downfall.

Release Date: 2014-10-22

Character: Self

Vote Count: 23

Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky

Andrei Konchalovsky reflects on the making of Runaway Train.

Release Date: 2013-07-22

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.

Release Date: 2012-04-04

Character: Self

Hitler in Hollywood

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.

Release Date: 2011-05-04

Character: Andrei Konchalovski

Vote Count: 12

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov

A one-off production of Boris Godunov was staged by Andrei Konchalovsky at the Teatro Regio in Torino in 2010, with Orlin Anastassov in the leading role and Gianandrea Noseda conducting the Orchestra del Teatro Regio.

Release Date: 2010-06-01

Department: Directing

Job: Stage Director

On the Trail of the New Wave

Release Date: 2009-03-14

Character: Self

Rerberg and Tarkovsky. The Reverse Side of 'Stalker'

The conflict surrounding the production of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece 'Stalker', as well as a look at the tragic character that was Georgi Rerberg.

Release Date: 2009-01-22

Character: Self

Vote Count: 9

It is Worth Remembering

In 2008, the Zvezda TV channel hosted a series of programs with Andrey Konchalovsky's "Worth remembering". In short TV stories, the Director talks about people who, in his opinion, have left a bright mark on world culture with their lives and work, and they deserve the attention and memory of posterity. Each program "Worth remembering" is dedicated to the birthday of a particular historical figure.

Release Date: 2008-02-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Ballerina

The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which instead turns into a nightmare. Against her will she will be forced into prostitution.

Release Date: 2008-01-01

In the Dark

An aged cinema owner attempts to watch 8½, while sex-crazed youths make out behind her.

Release Date: 2007-05-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director