Star (2014 Film)
''Star'' () is a 2014 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Anna Melikian. Plot Young Masha desperately wants to become a star, she saves money for plastic surgery and in parallel, persistently goes to castings and looks after a lonely old man to earn money. Mature Rita is the lover of the deputy minister, who wants to become pregnant and marry him. Kostya is the son of a deputy minister, who is constantly in conflict with his father and Rita, but falls in love with Masha when he meets her. After quarreling, Rita is forced to leave her lover's house, and meets Masha by chance. Cast * Tinatin Dalakishvili as Masha * Severija Janušauskaitė as Rita * Pavel Tabakov as Kostya * Andrey Smolyakov as Sergey Vladimirovich * Juozas Budraitis as old man Awards * Kinotavr: ** Best Director ( Anna Melikian) ** Best Actress (Severija Janušauskaitė) * V Odesa International Film Festival: ** Special Jury Prize ( Tinatin Dalakishvili) * Golden Eagle Award: ** Best Supporting Actress ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anna Melikian
Anna Melikian (; ; born February 8, 1976) is a Russian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with various awards at major international film festivals. After her participation at 2018 Sundance Film Festival she was listed in the TOP 10 of most perspective film directors by ''Variety'' magazine. Biography Anna Melikian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She spent her childhood in Yerevan, Armenia. At the age of 17 she moved to Moscow, Russia. Melikian studied at the All-Russian State University of Cinematography film school in Moscow (classes of Prof. Sergey Solovyov and Valery Rubinchik), where she was awarded the St. Anna prize for ''Poste restante'' (2000). In the 1990s, she worked for a while on television as a director of several programs and as a writer of video commercials and TV projects. After the graduation she was granted by ''GosKino'' Russian organization, made various documental and TV films. In 2008 Melikian's ''Mermaid'' (2007) was awarded ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kinotavr
Kinotavr (), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival was an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.Official website retrieved on 2018-05-14. Alexander Rodnyansky said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us." From 1994 to 2005 the festival consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF). As of 2008 it was the largest national film festival i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Russian Comedy-drama Films
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2010s Russian-language Films
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2014 Films
The following is an overview of the events of 2014 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths. DreamWorks Animation celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best films of 2014, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' stated, "The great surge in American filmmaking in the past ten years is due to independent financing at all levels. The American independent cinema is right now the flower of the world, but independence isn't in itself a merit badge. Artistically, the films in question range from the majestic to the meretricious. Independent financing has set truly imaginative directors into free flight. This is a moment of extraordinary cinematic invention—of filmmakers, working at a wide range of budget levels, coming up with original and personal ideas about movies and how to make them. On the other hand, this independent surge has also created ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 Comedy-drama Films
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Golden Eagle Award (Russia)
The Golden Eagle Award () is an award given by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, directors, actors, and writers. Modelled after the American Golden Globe Awards, the formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in Russia, alongside the Nika Award. The national Russian award is given out in 24 categories each January for motion pictures and TV series produced in Russia during the previous year. The awarding statuette is a silver eagle, originally made from copper with a jade pedestal, and was designed by sculptor Viktor Mitroshin. The design was later altered by the Spanish company Carrera y Carrera. The award was conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 and run by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences in Moscow. History The Golden Eagle Award was founded on 4 March 2002 by the N ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Odesa International Film Festival
The Odesa International Film Festival () is an annual film festival held in the middle of July in Odesa. Since 2016 the festival program has consisted of three parts: the International competition, National competition and European Documentary competition. The National competition is divided into Features and Shorts. History The first Odesa International Film Festival was held from 16 to 24 July 2010. As part of the Festival, a competitive program of 16 feature films was shown. In total, more than 100 films were presented at the competitive and non-competitive screenings at the festival. For the first 2 years, "Rodina''"'' cinema served as the main venue for the festival as well as the festival center in which competitive screenings and all main events of the festival took place. Since 2012, the main location of the event has been the Festival Palace of Odesa Theater of Musical Comedy with 1,260 seats. "Rodina" cinema remains a festival center, which hosts screenings of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Juozas Budraitis
Juozas Budraitis (born 6 October 1940) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film ''Wounded Game'', which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis also played a minor role in the finale of the period drama miniseries ''The Queen's Gambit (miniseries), The Queen's Gambit''. Biography Juozas Stanislavas Budraitis was born on 6 October 1940 in the village of Liepynai, Kelmė District Municipality, Kelmė, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union in a peasant family. In 1945, the family moved to Klaipėda, and in 1955 – to the small town of Švėkšna. In the years 1958-1960, Budraitis worked as a laborer at a training and production plant in Klaipėda. After serving in the army, he entered the law faculty of Vilnius University. During the third year of his studies, he was approved for one of the main roles in the Vytautas Žalakevičius film ''Nobody Wanted to Die'' which was released in 1966. B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tinatin Dalakishvili
Tinatin (Tina) Dalakishvili ( ka, თინათინ (თინა) დალაქიშვილი, born 2 February 1991, Tbilisi) is a Georgian actress and model. Early life and education Born on February 2, 1991, in Tbilisi, her name is translated from Georgian as Sunbeam. By profession she is a landscape designer. She has had no acting education. Career Dalakishvili debuted in the 2010 feature film thriller ''Season'', directed by Dato Borchkhadze, and later appeared in the romantic comedy '' Love with an Accent'' by Rezo Gigineishvili. Dalakishvili got into the project almost at the last moment, because initially Oksana Akinshina was to play Lesya. In the film, she was noticed by director Anna Melikian, who personally flew to meet with the young actress in Georgia. She also appeared in ''Star''. Dalakishvili rose to global fame after appearing in the 2019 English-language sci-fi/fantasy film ''Abigail'', in which Dalakishvili plays the title role. She has also starre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrey Smolyakov
Andrey Igorevich Smolyakov (; born 24 November 1958) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director. He is known for '' Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy'' (2011), ''Stalingrad'', and '' Forbidden Empire''. Life Smolyakov was born in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union as Andrey Igorevich Smolyakov. For three years he studied at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, but switched. In 1980 he graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts in a workshop under supervision of Oleg Tabakov. After graduation, he started working as actor on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1984-1986 he was associated with the theater "Satirikon". In 1987 he joined the Moscow Studio Theatre Oleg Tabakov. In 2004 he remarried to fashion designer Daria Razumikhina. Career Smolyakov made his debut in the film ''Kiss Dawns'' (1977). He played the title role in the playwright "Farewell, Mowgli!" based on ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling. In 2000 he received the prize of the newspape ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |