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The last circle for “The Ugly Swans”. |
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The shooting of “The Ugly Swans” has been completed. |
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| 11 | 12 | 2007 |
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| Sokurov’s ALEXANDRA: A Prayer for Peace |
| A film about war without bullets, bombs, or bloodshed — it’s difficult even to be convinced of “the enemy,” although Alexandra was shot on location in Grozny in the midst of the real war between Russia and Chechnya. But this we kno |
| Diane Sippl, Cinema without borders |
| 11 | 12 | 2007 |
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| ALEXANDRA- According to Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Sigle |
| Known as one of Russia’s most intellectual and spiritual filmmaikers, Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov was born in 1951 in the Siberian village of Podorvikha. He graduated from the History Department of Gorky University in 1974 and, in the same year, |
| James Ulmer, Cinema without borders |
| 03 | 07 | 2007 |
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| Elegiac Russian film looks at life in Chechnya |
| In Alexander Sokurov's elegiac new film, an old woman visits her grandson serving in Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya, and she quickly becomes a magnet for soldiers and locals worn down by years of conflict. |
| CANNES, France (Reuters) |
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