Victor Eduardovich Matizen (russian: Ви́ктор Эдуа́рдович Ма́тизен; born February 19, 1949,
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
) is a Soviet and Russian film critic, president of the
Russian Guild of Film Critics
The Russian Guild of Film Critics (russian: Гильдия киноведов и кинокритиков России) is a Russian organization of professional film critics, headquartered in Moscow. Beginning in 1998, the guild began conferri ...
(2003-2011), chairman of the Council of Film Award
White Elephant
A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, sch ...
, curator of the site of the Guild kinopressa.ru.
He graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of
Novosibirsk State University
Novosibirsk State University is a public research university located in Novosibirsk, Russia. The university was founded in 1958, on the principles of integration of education and science, early involvement of students with research activities an ...
with a degree in Probability Theory in 1970.
Laureate of the Golden Aries Award, the State Film Fund of the Russian Federation and the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics.
He joined the
Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation in 1991, but in March 2009, at a meeting of filmmakers in Gostiny Dvor, he was expelled from him for criticizing the leadership of the union headed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the ...
, being the only one expelled from this organization in the post-Soviet period.
In March 2014 signed the letter, ''We Are With You!'' In support of
Ukraine
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.
In March 2022, Matizen signed a collective appeal of film critics, film historians and film journalists of Russia against
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. ...
.
References
External links
Виктор Матизен. Ангелы революции в стране ОзКинематографисты России создали второй союз
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1949 births
Living people
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Russian film critics
Novosibirsk State University alumni
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine