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?
金无法相信他心爱的孩子芭芭拉公主已经长大成人。他仍然试图照看公主,但是16岁的芭芭拉在她的生日聚会上发脾气。当所有人都心烦意乱的时候,王位却被一个狡猾的邮差黄鼠狼抢走了。然而,由于不满足于成为王国的唯一统治者,他还打算嫁给芭芭拉。芭芭拉公主跑出宫殿,发现自己在森林深处。她碰到了歹徒布吉和他的朋友邪恶的兔子。芭芭拉的干涉严重破坏了这两个朋友普通的单身生活。芭芭拉干预每件事,安排自己的一套规则,并不断让他们对她关于爱德华王子的假设感到不安。她想象爱德华王子如何击败冒名顶替者,恢复国王的职位,并向芭芭拉求婚。就像书上说的。为了除掉芭芭拉,布吉决定去寻找爱德华王子,阻止黄鼠狼,恢复王国秩序。
难得一见的流星雨即将在俄罗斯上空出现,青年男女们兴奋非常,纷纷走上街头见证着历史性的一刻。美丽女孩尤利娅(伊琳娜·斯达森保姆 Irina Starshenbaum 饰)不顾身为军官的父亲的反对,执意和特姆(亚历山大·佩特罗夫 Alexander Petrov 饰)交往。在流星雨来的这天,他们躲在一隅偷欢,却不知莫大的危机正在袭来。一艘外星飞船遭到意外,结果又被俄罗斯空军击中。它在迫降的过程中给莫斯科造成毁灭性的打击,而尤利娅的闺蜜也在灾难中丧生。在此之后,尤利娅和朋友们闯入禁区,遭遇了外星人。阴差阳错,她决定救治受重伤的外星飞行员汉克(林奈·穆罕默托夫 Rinal Mukhametov 饰),而特姆等憎恶外星人带来的灾难,对汉克恨之入骨。 跨越时空的爱情在此过程中产生……
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 ...
尤里(丹尼拉·科兹洛夫斯基 Danila Kozlovsky 饰)原本是莫斯科王牌球队的队长兼主力,因为痛失点球情绪失控不得不提前退役,退役后的生活颓废至极,在父亲的劝说下,他来到了俄罗斯边远小城,成为了这个城市唯一一支球队——流星队的主教练。尤里由于脾气火爆,跟球队经理(伊琳娜·戈尔巴乔娃 Irina Gorbacheva 饰)和市长冲突不断,而懒散的球员们也对曾经的巨星疯狂奚落,尤里本想破罐破摔,但是美丽的队医(奥莉亚·祖耶娃 Olya Zueva 饰)照亮了他的生活,少年球队的教练(弗拉基米尔·伊利因 Vladimir Ilin 饰)也给他带来了眼前一亮的训练方法。在了解了球员们的真实状况后,尤里决心重新以主教练的身份一雪前耻,等待他们的是困难重重的比赛,和物力、人力的缺失,关键的比赛时刻,一直支持尤里的父亲也突然去世,尤里能否引领队伍重回巅峰呢?
高尔察克(康斯坦丁·哈宾斯基 Konstantin Khabensky 饰)是俄国海军上将,他有着卓越的将才,指挥战舰在一战中屡建战功,并受到亲王亲自授勋。年轻英俊,风华正茂,大好前途在他面前展开,爱情也自然如约到来,在一次酒会上,高尔察克遇见了美丽的安娜(Elizaveta Boyarskaya 饰),可惜她当时已嫁作人妇,但两个人难以掩饰彼此吸引,安娜不惜为他离开自己的丈夫。时局动荡,沙皇倒台,十月革命爆发,惯于忠诚的高尔察克在内战中执着尽力,也无法抵抗白色政权的瓦解,高尔察克遭到出卖,被苏维埃政权秘密处决,而安娜被苏维埃政府关押了37年,最终释放,她对高尔察克仍至死不渝。
佳娜(阿格莱亚·塔拉索娃 Aglaya Tarasova 饰)出生在一个非常贫困的家庭之中,在母亲的鼓励和栽培下,佳娜成为了一名花样滑冰运动员,虽然佳娜的身体条件并不是非常适合这项运动,但凭借着自己的努力,佳娜最终成功的站在了世界顶级花滑男选手里奥纳夫(米洛斯·比柯维奇 Milos Bikovic 饰)的身边,成为了他的搭档。两人通过默契十足的合作夺得了许多耀眼的成绩,彼此之间也碰撞出了爱情的火花。 花滑世界杯即将开始之前,佳娜不幸受伤,无奈只能告别赛场,里奥纳夫也因此离开了她。就在佳娜万念俱灰的时候,冰球运动员萨沙(亚历山大·佩特洛夫 Alexander Petrov 饰)成为了她坚强的后盾。