俄國文豪果戈里短篇《鼻子》與作曲家蕭士塔科維奇同名歌劇結合,第一幕是軍 官尋找大鼻子的荒謬故事,第二幕戲謔史太林與作家布爾加科夫的嘻嘻關係,第 三幕緬懷被處決的敢言藝術家與科學家,追憶不畏極權的先烈。歌劇《鼻子》曾 被史太林禁演,七十年代解封,動畫大師哥沙諾夫斯基(《DAU. 娜塔莎之劫》導 演的父親)耗時半世紀,包羅蘇俄文學、音樂和政治,融會多種動畫技藝。其氣 魄之大,嘲諷之強,無愧為結合劇情、傳記、滑稽劇和音樂劇的前衛動畫鉅作。
苏联解体后那个“疯狂的九十年代”,在俄罗斯北方一座工业城市。主人公伊万是一名雅库特人(少数族裔),因为20多年前那场不光彩的茹侵阿富汗战争留下了脑震荡,现在是一家锅炉房里的工人。一位当地的黑道大佬是伊万从前的战友,常常利用锅炉房来毁尸灭迹,“没关系,他们都是一些坏人”,如此,他安慰伊万说。但直到有一天,当Skryabin的女儿因抢走了这位朋友女儿的男友而被送进锅炉时,伊万才开始醒悟。战争并没有结束。 影片是一部极端残酷的暴力现实主义作品,可谓延续了阿历克塞·巴拉巴诺夫一贯大胆黑色的风格。他执导的《兄弟》、《畸零与色情》等片让主流媒体难以接受,克里姆林宫最喜欢的导演Nikita Mikhalkov(《毒太阳》)也曾出面攻击称《兄弟》的主人公“充满破坏欲”,“荼毒青少年的思想”。不过在2010年底俄国影评人们颁出的“白象”奖中,《火炉工》摘得了最佳影片、最佳导演在内四项大奖,成为最大赢家。
童年时代的悲惨经历让勇敢战士猎狼犬(亚历山大·布哈罗夫 Aleksandr Bukharov 饰)的心中充满了仇恨,即便失去了自由沦为奴隶,但猎狼犬心中的仇恨却并没有因为时间的流逝而有半分减损。终于,猎狼犬找到了机会逃脱了敌人的禁锢,不过故事并没有就此结束,因为还有更重要的事情在等待着猎狼犬去完成。 海伦公主(奥莎娜·阿金什那 Oksana Akinshina 饰)遭遇了被诅咒的命运,她不仅被迫和恶魔的儿子维尼塔(安纳托里·贝利 Anatoli Belyj 饰)订下了婚约,还为了召唤邪恶的女巫而献出了自己的鲜血。猎狼犬的到来替海伦公主带来了希望,在敌人重重的包围之中,猎狼犬能够顺利的完成自己的任务吗?
Twenty-year-old Elya is a student and a future ecologist. One day, Matvey, the head of a construction company, comes to her university to talk about a development plan on the site of an old forest park. Elya does not hesitate to smash his project to smithereens. Matvey is intrigued by the girl's self-confidence and uses his usual methods of influence - he simply tries to "buy" her. But Elya doesn't need a sponsor. Then Matvey, surprised by her impregnability, offers Elya a bet: seven romantic days according to his rules. If after that the girl still decides to leave, he will refuse to build a skyscraper in the forest park. She agrees when Matvey really suspends the design work. Elya sees herself as something like the heroine of the film Pretty Woman, but Matvey turns out to be not at all the person she imagined.
艾利克斯(康斯坦丁·拉朗尼柯 Konstantin Lavronenko 饰)和妻子薇拉(玛利亚·邦妮薇 Maria Bonnevie 饰)带着孩子们来到了位于乡间的老家度假,这里闲适的生活和优美的风景安抚了一家人疲惫的心灵。 正当艾利克斯沉浸在宁静的情绪中时,薇拉告诉丈夫自己怀孕的消息,让艾利克斯震惊的是,薇拉坦陈,腹中孩子并不是艾利克斯的骨肉。在巨大的打击之下,艾利克斯找到了兄弟马克(亚历山大·巴鲁耶夫 Aleksandr Baluev 饰),向他倾吐胸中的愤懑,在两人的商讨之中,艾利克斯决定让妻子堕胎。不幸的是,薇拉死在了手术台上,艾利克斯的世界崩溃了,他的悲伤和愤怒化为了仇恨,他发誓要找到妻子的情人,让他也尝一尝和自己一样的滋味。
为了追缉跨国犯罪分子,俄罗斯情报局特工伊戈尔•克列姆涅夫(弗拉基米尔•叶皮凡采夫 V. Yepifantsev 饰)来到哥伦比亚,但是行动失败,手下全部丧生。这让伊戈尔备受指责,他百口莫辩,被降职。为了戴罪立功,他接受了俄罗斯石油大亨索尔金的案子,后者被控偷税漏税并企图颠覆政府。伊戈尔去欧洲缉拿知悉索尔金犯罪证据的米哈伊尔•谢里克。期间,他结识了身材火辣、身手不凡的女间谍奥拉娃(奥莉加•法捷耶娃 Olga Fadeyeva 饰)。起初,伊戈尔误认为奥拉娃是敌人一伙,幸好同伴提醒,才让对方表明心迹,同仇敌忾。两人密切配合并取得了很好的战绩。某夜,伊戈尔正在淋浴,奥拉娃突然闯入,色诱于他。两人激情缠绵之时,她却用早已藏好的针管插入了他的身体,原来这一切不过是个阴谋……
亚太电影大奖评审团大奖, 奥列格快30岁了,是一名医护,每一个繁重的轮班后,他都喜欢痛饮一场。他太太凯特雅也是个医生,在医院急诊室工作,但是她对奥列格的耐心已经快磨没了,所以有一天,她宣布要离婚,不过他们还得一起合住在这个狭小的公寓里,直到奥列格找到房子。他还发现他的工作出现了很大变化,让他的生活变得更艰难…… 导演鲍里斯·赫列勃尼科夫是俄罗斯当代电影界最有趣的导演之一,在这部忠实展现特定环境的影片中,证实了他的能力。尽管运用了一定的夸张手法,他还是在描述主角的困境和情感时,体现了仁慈与理解。影片使用精准的导演手法,勾勒出一段正经历“心律失常”的关系,正如奥列格在救护车中施救的病人所经历的一样。
In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...