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Viktor Kossakovsky
Viktor Kossakovsky (; born 19 July 1961) is a Russian documentary filmmaker. Early life Kossakovsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the time Leningrad, U.S.S.R. He began his film career in 1978, working as an assistant cameraman, assistant director, and editor at the Leningrad Studio of Documentaries. From 1986 to 1988, he studied screenwriting and directing at Moscow HCSF. He became a vegetarian during his childhood. Career Kossakovsky's first released feature was his 1992 documentary ''Belovy'' / ''The Belovs''. Subsequent works include his 2002 documentary ''Hush!'' / ''Tishe!'' and his 2003 documentary ''Russia from My Window'' (2003), both made from footage that Kossakovsky filmed out his bedroom window or on his street in St. Petersburg; and his well-received mediation on the natural wonder of water, '' Aquarela'' (2018), released in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics. In 2011, his documentary ''¡Vivan las Antipodas!'' was selected as the opening film of the Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the Saint Petersburg metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the List of European cities by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in Europe, the List of cities and towns around the Baltic Sea, most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's List of northernmost items#Cities and settlements, northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a Ports of the Baltic Sea, historically strategic port, it is governed as a Federal cities of Russia, federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe's leading film event. History The pre-war dream of many enthusiastic filmmakers materialized in 1946 when a non-competition festival of films from seven countries took place in Mariánské Lázně and Karlovy Vary. Above all it was intended to screen the results of the recently nationalized Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak film industry. After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary. The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in 1948. Since 1951, an international jury has evaluated the films. The Karlovy Vary competition quickly found a place among other developing festivals and by 1956 FIAPF had already classified Karlovy Vary as a category A festival. Given the creation of the Moscow Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Film Directors
The following is the list of Russian film directors. A * Vadim Abdrashitov * Sarik Andreasyan * André Andrejew * Oleg Anofriyev * Semyon Aranovich * Artur Aristakisyan B * Aleksei Balabanov * Kantemir Balagov * Boris Barnet * Yevgeni Bauer * Timur Bekmambetov * Lidia Bobrova * Sergei Bodrov * Sergei Bodrov, Jr. * Fedor Bondarchuk * Alexander Borodyansky * Vladimir Bortko * Arcady Boytler * Konstantin Bronzit * Dimitri Buchowetzki * Yuri Bykov C * Pyotr Chardynin * Pavel Chukhray D * Grigoriy Dobrygin * Ivan Dykhovichny E * Sergei Eisenstein * Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai * Nurbek Egen F * Costa Fam * Aleksey Fedorchenko * Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia * Dmitri Alexeyevich Frolov G * Levan Gabriadze * Vladimir Gardin * Sergei Gerasimov * Marion Gering * Aleksei Alekseivich German * Aleksei Yuryevich German * Valeriya Gai Germanika * Victor Ginzburg * Georgi Gitis * Alexander Goldstein * Vasily Goncharov * Stanislav Govorukhin * Alexis Granowsky * Yuli Gusman * Ishtar Yasin Gut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecton
''Architecton'' is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky about the ways that stone and concrete architecture express the values of societies. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 19 February 2024, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award. It was released on 3 October 2024 in Germany by Neuer Visionen, and was released in the United States on 1 August 2025 by A24. Content Kossakovsky presents a poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction – and offer hope for survival and a way forward. He reflects on the rise and fall of civilizations while focusing on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, using imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunda (2020 Film)
''Gunda'' (also known as ''Gunda: Mother, Pig'') is a 2020 documentary film directed, co-written, and co-edited by Viktor Kossakovsky. The film follows the daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken. Joaquin Phoenix serves as an executive producer. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 23, 2020. It was released in the United States on April 16, 2021, by Neon. Synopsis Shot in black-and-white and without dialogue, the film follows the daily life of Gunda — a sow and her piglets, two cows, and a one-legged chicken. A note during the credits indicates that the documentary was filmed in farms and sanctuaries in Norway, Spain, and the UK. Release The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 23, 2020. Shortly after, Neon acquired North American distribution rights to the film. It screened at the New York Film Festival on September 19, 2020 and at the Adelaide Film Festival in Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True/False Film Festival
True/False Film Fest is an annual documentary film festival that takes place in Columbia, Missouri. The Fest occurs on the first weekend in March (sometimes beginning in late February), with films being shown from Thursday evening to Sunday night. Films are screened at multiple locations around downtown Columbia, including Ragtag Cinema, Jesse Hall, Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, The Picturehouse, The Blue Note, The Globe, Rhynsburger Theater and the Forrest Theater in the Tiger Hotel. It offers one award each year, the True Vision Award. True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema are programs of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the Ragtag Film Society. Ragtag Film Society seeks to champion independent film and media art and to serve film communities both locally and globally. History True/False was started by Paul Sturtz and David Wilson (who also founded the Ragtag Cinema) in February 2004. In 2006, it won the ''Riverfront Times'' best film festival. In 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Findling Award
The Findling Award or short Findling () was a German film award donated by the umbrella organization of cultural cinemas and film clubs Verband für Filmkommunikation. It was founded in 1982 in GDR and was awarded on several film festivals. Far more than hundred filmmakers received this award. The prize itself is a stone on a pedestal with a metal plate designed by sculptor Peter Lewandowsky. Part of the prize's endowment was a tour of the winning film with its director and a critic, often with Sven Eggers, to cultural cinemas, art houses and film society, film clubs. The award was named after a glacial erratic, but plays with the word as it also means "foundling (other), foundling". Sometimes, though wrong, you read Findling Prize. Festivals It was awarded on all GDR National film festivals: * Nationales Spielfilmfestival der DDR (National Feature Film Festival of GDR) in Karl-Marx-Stadt (1982-1990) * Nationales Festival des Dokumentarfilms der DDR (National Festival o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dok Leipzig
DOK Leipzig is a documentary film festival that takes place every October in Leipzig, Germany. It is an international film festival for documentary and animated film founded in 1955 under the name "1st All-German Leipzig Festival of Cultural and Documentary Films" and was the first independent film festival in East Germany. In 1995 a separate competition for animated films was added and in 2004 a film industry program, DOK Industry, was initiated to allow a networking and contact platform for industry professionals. Shortly after German reunification attendance figures dropped, with just 5,500 people coming in 1993; however, they quickly picked up and in 2008 the festival had more than 27,000 attendees. DOK Leipzig is part of the Doc Alliance – a creative partnership between 7 key European documentary film festivals. History The initiative for the ''1st All-German Leipzig Festival of Cultural and Documentary Films'' came from West German journalist and film critic Ludwig Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreda
The Moscow Literary Sreda () was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolai Teleshov. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916. Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 1998. List of Sreda members *Leonid Andreyev * Pyotr Boborykin *Ivan Bunin * Fyodor Chaliapin *Anton Chekhov (Visitor) *Evgeny Chirikov *Sergey Elpatyevsky *Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (Visitor) *Maxim Gorky * Evgeny Goslavsky *Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky *Aleksandr Kuprin *Vladimir Korolenko (Visitor) *Isaac Levitan * Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak *Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov * Alexander Serafimovich *Ivan Shmelyov * Stepan Skitalets *Fyodor Sologub (Visitor) * Nikolai Teleshov *Viktor Vasnetsov * Vikenty Veresaev * Semyon Yushkevich * Boris Zaytsev *Nikolai Zlatovratsky Nikolai Nikolaievich Zlatovratsky () (December 26, 1845 – December 23, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was a socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR.The Free Dictionary Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic . Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved on 22 June 2011. The Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
