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 Programs / Films A-Z
VOCAL PARALLELS
 13.07 - 21.00 Moscow Cinema, Red Hall
14.07 - 20.00 Nairi Cinema, Large Hall
2005, Kazakhstan, 65 min.
NON COMPETITION PROGRAM
Yerevan Premiers
Script.: Rustam Khamdamov, Renata Litvinova, Dir./Cost design: Rustam Khamdamov, Dir. of Phot.: Rifkat Ibragimov, Sergey Mokritsky, Compos.: Vladimir Martynov, Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Mikhail Glinka, Robert Schumann, Sound: Mikhail Reznichenko, Edit.: Irakly Kvirikadze, Prod.: Rustam Khamdamov, Galina Kuzembaeva.
Cast: Renata Litvinova, Eric Kurmangaliev, Araksia Datvian, Roza Dzhamanova, Bibigul Tuligenova.
Vocal Erik Kurmangaliev, Araksia Datvian, Roza Dzhamanova, Bibigul Tuligenova.
A “film-concert” that revives a genre vastly popular in the era of Stalin. His highly entertaining version offers a playfully surreal round of arias by Verdi, Puccini, Glinka and other composers, performed by former stars of Soviet opera in locations like an abandoned factory, a nomad’s hut, or somewhere in the Kazakh steppes. These operatic fragments are presented by mistress of ceremonies Renata Litvinova – a post-Soviet Venus in Furs who makes melancholy comments about the decline of imperial grandeur. The film derives its magic from the ingenious interplay of light and colour, from absurd comedy and the extravagant costumes.
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Rustam Khamdamov
 Born 24.05.1944, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Artist, director, laureate of “Triumph” and “Nation’s Cultural Treasure” awards. Graduated from the VGIK, direction faculty (1969, G. Chukhray’s workshop). At the beginning of the 90-s he lived in France on the invitation of Paris mayor, at the present lives in Moscow. The artist’s pictures were bought and now demonstrated by galleries of Paris, London and private collections. An outstanding expert of the material culture and an original artist, he made drafts for decorations ordered by some European haute couture and pret-a porte houses, drafts of jewelry for the “Russian World Gallery” in USA, costumes for the theatrical projects, including The Gull by Andrey Konchalovsky (2004). First directorial feature of him, a student work My Heart’s in the Highlands, became a world cinema event and excited Fellini and Antonioni. The second wasn’t finished and the third – Anna Karamazof f- was premiered in Cannesin the main competition program and received the most enthusiastic and contradictory press.
Filmography
My Heart Is in the Highlands (1967), Accident Elations (Nechayannye radosti 1974, not finished), Anna Karamazova (1991), Vocal Parallels (Vokaldy
paralelder, 2005).
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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.
On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister.
Awards
Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965. |
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Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.
This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history. |
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