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Sokurov to begin shooting final film
By NICK HOLDSWORTH
Posted: Tue., May 12, 2009, 8:00pm PT
Russian director and Cannes veteran Alexander Sokurov will begin shooting "Faust," the fourth and final film in his "tr |
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Phyllida Lloyd on Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra" |
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| A Russian woman visits her soldier grandson in war-ravaged Chechnya. She shuffles about the camp with a kind of perplexed authority, meeting soldiers, chatting to her grandson and tottering off for some shopping in the nearby Chechen market |
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| "Mamma Mia!" director Phyllida Lloyd, 30 dec. 2008 |
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ALEXANDRA- According to Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Sigle |
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| 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, |
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| James Ulmer, Cinema without borders |
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Elegiac Russian film looks at life in Chechnya |
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| 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. |
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CANNES, 24 mai 2007 (AFP) - Pas de belle montée des marches pour le second film russe en compétition |
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| CANNES, 24 mai 2007 (AFP) - Pas de belle montée des marches pour le s |
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"Alexandra", le voyage d'une grand-mère en Tchétchénie |
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| Le long-métrage du cinéaste russe Alexandre Sokourov suit le parcours d'une vieille dame qui rend visite en Tchétchénie à son petit-fils, un soldat endurci par les combats. |
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"Alexandra" |
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| Though he's sure to deny it, "Alexandra" is Alexander Sokurov's most directly political work for years. Featuring a performance of monumental depth by opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya, pic presents war for what it is: brutal, crushing, and ugly, |
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| By JAY WEISSBERG, www.variety.com |
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"Alexandra" a moving snapshot of Chechnya |
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| The value of a beautiful orchestral score in a movie is made clear in Russian director Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra," an austere glimpse of life in wartorn Chechnya. Andrei Sigle, who produced the film, also composed the music, and its sweepin |
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| Ray Bennett, CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) |
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| Cannes Film Festival 2007 (World Premiere, Competition)--Alexander Sokurov’s new film “Alexandra” is a conceptually fascinating piece that explores the moral consequences of the Russian military entanglement in Chechnya pictured through |
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| Patrick Z. McGavin, http://emanuellevy.com |
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CANNES, France (AFP) |
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| The Chechen battleground's human cost comes starkly to life in Russian master Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra", but due to illness neither he nor 80-year-old star Galina Vishnevskaya -- widow of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich -- attended its Canne |
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| by Claire Rosemberg, 24.05.2007 |
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| The Golden Eagle |
8 series TV film "Crime and Punishment" produced by Andrey Sigle and Dmitry Svetozarov became a nominee of the "Golden Eagle" Award. |
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| The week of Russian Cinema in Costa Rica |
The week of Russian Cinema in Costa Rica took place in San Hose (the capital of Costa Rika) 5 -12 November. Proline-film studio presented there Alexander Sokurov"s film "Alexandra" that had great success.
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| “The Orchard” at Arsenals |
| “The Orchard” by Sergey Ovcharov was screened during the closing night of Riga International Film Forum Arsenals. |
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| "The Orchard" is the winner of "Amur Autumn" |
Anna Vartanian who played the main role in "The Orchard" won the prize as "The best actress" at the 4th Festival "Amur Autumn" in Blagoveschensk 14-28 September |
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