A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. (2023)
A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important milestones of cinema. Its introduction as a lowbrow entertainment, the impact of WWI and revolutions on the film process. The principal masters - Kuleshov, Vertov, Eisenstein - and their discoveries in film language at the turn of the 1920-30s. The arrival of sound. The evacuation of the Soviet film industry during WWII and the heroic work of the wartime documentary crews. Restricted film production and early signs of the thaw in the late 1940s - early 1950s. Film historians and art critics, directors and screenwriters put the history of cinema in a broader context, considering the path that the country took from Tsarist Russia to the totalitarian state under the rule of Stalin.
Director: Vladimir Kocharyan
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Zara Abdullayeva as Self |
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Alexei Aigui as Self |
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Anton Dolin as Self |
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Tamara Eidelman as Self |
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Evgeny Gindilis as Self |
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Nikolai Izvolov as Self - Russian film historian |
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Nikolai Kulikov as Self |
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Georgy Molodtsov as Self |
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Alexander Rodnyansky as Self |
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Nina Tsyrkun as Self |
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Yelena Stishova as Self |
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Natalya Ryabchikova as Self |
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Stanislav Dedinskiy as Self |
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Evgeny Margolit as Self |
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Alisa Nasrtdinova as Self |
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Olga Derevyankina as Self |
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Vsevolod Korshunov as Self |
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Nikolay Mayorov as Self |
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Denis Fedorin as Self |
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Kirill Goryachok as Self |
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Natalya Nusinova as Self |
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Kristina Matvienko as Self |
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Anna Zakrevskaya as Self |
| Writing | Natalya Ryabchikova | Script Editor |
| Writing | Svetlana Matyushina | Writer |
| Writing | Anna Zakrevskaya | Writer |
| Writing | Stanislav Dedinskiy | Script Editor |
| Directing | Vladimir Kocharyan | Director |
| Writing | Vladimir Kocharyan | Writer |
| Writing | Natalya Ryabchikova | Writer |
| Sound | Alexei Aigui | Music |
