Переделка, перемотка, переработка

18-ый ежегодный Симпозиум российского кино «Переделка, перемотка, переработка» пройдет в Университете Питтсбурга с понедельника 2 мая по субботу 7 мая 2016 года. Вечерние показы состоятся в кинозале «Мелвуд» (Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room). В то время как римейки и сиквелы уже долго являются обязательной составляющей кинопродукции США и Западной Европы, их можно было редко встретить в Советском Союзе. Римейки ограничивались …

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Pitt and Pittsburgh Filmmakers to Host 17th Annual Russian Film Symposium May 4 – May 9 The University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Filmmakers will present the 17th Annual Russian Film Symposium from Monday 4 May to Saturday 9 May 2015, at Pitt’s Oakland campus and Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room at 477 Melwood Avenue. Under the title Red Empire Reloaded, the Russian …

Schedule 2015

Daytime panels/screenings will be in Wesley W. Posvar Hall 1500 Evening screenings at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room Monday 4 May 10 am: Aleksandr Rogozhkin: Cuckoo, 2002 (99 min) Introduction: Anton Dolin. Response: Kelly Trimble. 2 pm: Aleksei Fedorchenko: First on the Moon, 2005 (75 min) Introduction: Drew Chapman. Response: Olga Kim. Tuesday  5 May 10 am: Nikolai Lebedev: Star, 2002 (93 min) Introduction: Svetlana Ishevskaia. Response: Ekaterina Turta. 2 pm:  Marina Razbezhkina: Harvest Time, 2003 (67 min) Introduction: Katie …

Participants 2015

Irina Anisimova Mark Best Katie Bird Drew Chapman Nancy Condee Chip Crane Anton Dolin Khusein Erkenov Beach Gray Valeriia Gorelova Svetlana Ishevskaia Olga Kim Olga Klimova Gerald McCausland Olga Mukhortova Vladimir Padunov Alexander Prokhorov Elena Prokhorova Bill Purse Natalie Ryabchikova Ellina Sattarova Tetyana Shlikhar James Steffen Theodora Kelly Trimble Ekaterina Turta Trevor Wilson

Press about the 17th Russian Film Symposium

Barry Paris’ review on The Hope Factory and Ordered to Forget Movie reviews: 2 movies bring out grimness of Russian life The article about 17th Russian Film Symposium by Barry Paris / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The review of Al Hoff in the City Paper  

Harvest Time

Harvest Time [Время жатвы] Russia, 2004 Color, 67 minutes Russian with English subtitles Director: Marina Razbezhkina Screenplay: Marina Razbezhkina Camera: Irina Ural’skaia Art Director: Rashit Safullin Composer: Anton Silaev Cast: Liudmila Motornaia, Viacheslav Batrakov, Dima Iakovlev, Dima Ermakov, Svetlana Efremova, Sergei Timofeev Producer: Natal’ia Zheltukhina Production: RISK, with support from the Russian Ministry of Culture Harvest Time was the first …

Ordered to Forget

Ordered to Forget [Приказано забыть] Russia, 2014 Color, 87 minutes Russian and Chechen with English subtitles Director: Khusein Erkenov Screenplay: Ruslan Kokanaev, Sultan Zaurbekov Camera: Anatolii Petringa Composer: Vladimir Dashkevich Cast: Shamkhan Mitraev, Kheda Akhmadova, Roza Khairullina, Timur Badalbeili, Roman Kuznichenko, Movsar Ataev, Aleksandr Novin Producer: Ruslan Kokanaev Production: Kinokompaniia “Grozny-fil’m” im. Sheikha Mansura Khusein Erkenov’s Ordered to Forget revisits …

Symposium 2015: Red Empire Reloaded

по-русски The seventeenth annual Russian Film Symposium, “Red Empire Reloaded,” will be held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh from Monday 4 May through Saturday 9 May 2015, with evening screenings at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room. The Russian Federation is quickly approaching the silver anniversary of the Soviet collapse (25 December 1991). Cinema in the final years …

Escape from Afghanistan

Escape from Afghanistan USA, 2002 Color, 90 minutes Executive Producer: Roger Corman Producers: Peter Yeliferenko, John Carrington, and Maria Abakirova Additional Dialogue: Richard Williams Additional Music: Mel Lewis Production: New Concorde The Peshawar Waltz [Пешаварский вальс] Russia, 1994 Color, 86 minutes Russian, English, Pashto with Russian voiceover dub Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Gennadii Kaiumov Screenplay: Gennadi Kaiumov, Timur Bekmambetov, Rauf Kubaev …