Konstantin Lopushansky

Film Director, Scriptwriter working in the trend of Russian Author Cinema, A.Tarkovsky’s student. Award-winner at more than 20 international film festivals (including the Berlinale in 1995, and at the Moscow Film Festival in 1989). Russian State Prize laureate. FIPRESSI laureate. Lopushansky’s first full-length film, «Letters from a Dead Man» («Briefe eines Toten», «Lettres d’un homme mort»), brought him world-wide fame. It was screened at more than 10 international festivals (including Cannes in 1987) and was shown practically all over the world at cinemas and on TV. Konstantin Lopushansky also writes the scripts for his films. His scripts have been published as literary works in Russia and some European countries. Lopushansky’s films have been screened numerous limes on TV, i.e. in France (ARTE), Germany (ZDF), Canada, the USA (TBC), South America, Australia, the U.K. and Eastern Europe. Retrospectives of Lopushansky’s films were held in cinemas in Germany (1995 and 1996), France (1997) and Belgium (1997).

ABOUT FILMS

• 2006 The ugly swans (tv/f) (film director, scriptwriter )
• 2000 The turn of the century (tv/f) (film director, scriptwriter )
• 1994 Russian symphony (tv/f) (film director, scriptwriter )
• 1989 Museum visitor (tv/f) (film director, scriptwriter )
• 1986 Letters from a dead man (tv/f) (film director, scriptwriter )
• 1980 Solo (tv/f) (film director, scriptwriter )

PRIZES

Russian symphony

1994

«La symphonie russe ou reves d’apocalypse», «Russische Symphonie»
Production: Lenfilm, 2P & K0 (Russia), Russian Film Committee, Orient Express (France), Arte-ZDF (France/Germany), Interfilm (Germany). Premiered at Montreal International Film Festival

1995
Awards: The Ecumenical Jury Prize of the Forum program at the 45th International Festival in Berlin.

Museum visitor

1990

«Silver George», a prize presented by the ecumenical jury at the Moscow International Film Festival

Grand-prix for the director’s work at the International Film Festival of experimental films in Madrid

Letters from a dead man

«Lettres d’un homme mort», «Briefe eines Toten»
Production: Lenfilm, Russian Film Committee. Screened in cinemas and on TV all over the world, cinema attendance over 15 mio. spectators in the Soviet Union.
12 International Awards, among them the Grand Prize and Fipressi Prize at the 35th International Film Festival in Mannheim, 1986, the Prize of the French Cinema Clubs Federation at Cannes, 1987, Grand Prix at Varna (Bulgaria), Special Prize at Troja (Portugal), and others.

The turn of the century

«La fin du siecle», «Das Ende des Jahrhunderts»
Production: Panorama Studio (Russia), Goskino (Russia), Montecinemaverita (Switzerland)
Festivals: MKF (Moscow), Telluride (Colorado), Mar del Plata (Argentina), Kinotavr (Russia), Window to Europe (Russia) and others.

Solo

Production: Lenfilm. 4 International Awards.