On Saturday, September 6, announced the winners of the 71 th Venice Film Festival. “Silver Lion” for Best Director was awarded the Andrei Konchalovsky – for the film “White Nights postman Alexei Tryapitsyna.” This semi-documentary tape starring in which is not performed by professional actors, and the villagers – including this postman Tryapitsyn, – compared with the previous, recognized as the best works of the director, including the film “The Story of Asya Klyachina who loved, but not married “in 1988. Konchalovsky itself is not the first time gets the prize of the Venice festival in 2002, his painting “House of Fools” won here “Special Grand Jury.” In 1966, actress Natalia Arinbasarova received “Volpi Cup” for the film Konchalovsky’s “First Teacher”, and even earlier – in 1962 – the main prize went to film Andrei Tarkovsky «Ivanovo childhood “, one of the authors of the script which was Konchalovsky. AiF.ru recalls other national winners of the Venice Film Festival.
The history of Russian cinema in the Italian film festivals began simultaneously with the history of the festival. On the first look, the last in 1932, for the grand prize – “Golden Lion” – fought “Road to Life» Nicholas Eck – the first Soviet sound film about homeless children, for whom the hero Nicholas Batalov is organizing labor commune as an alternative to prison for young offenders. Awards were determined by audience vote, and Eck received the award for best director, beating Rene Clair, Leni Riefenstahl and Alexander Dovzhenko , who represented her in Venice “Earth” – filmed at the Kiev Film Studio silent film, one of the masterpieces of poetic cinema.
In 1934, the main prize – the then Mussolini Prize – was awarded the entire program. Russian cinema presents a picture of “St. Petersburg Night” and “The Storm» Grigory Roshal , a documentary “Cheliuskin” film “Suburban» Boris Barnet – the life of a provincial town in the First World – and the musical comedy Grigory Alexandrov «Moscow laughs.” Under this title have been shown in Venice “Jolly Fellows” – a film with Leonid Utesova and Lyubov Orlova in the lead roles, created under the influence rather than Soviet kinotraditsii and eccentric American silent film .
Grigory Alexandrov brought the Soviet Union and the following award Venice Film Festival, however, it had to wait for 13 years – including due to the outbreak of the war, during which over two years (1943 and 1945), the festival was not performed. In 1947, the prize for best screenplay was awarded Alexandrov and his co-authors, Alexander Raskin and Maurice Slobodskoe , who worked on the painting “Spring” with Lyubov Orlova and Nikolai Cherkasov in the lead roles.
The best Soviet directors and recognized in 1953 and 1955. First, the “Silver Lion” was awarded the Alexander Ptushko for his kinoskazki “Sadko” on guslyar who visited even on the seabed. Two years later, the same reward taken away from Italy at the time directed by debutant Samson Samsonov , who presented at the festival film “The Grasshopper” in the eponymous story by Chekhov.
In 1962, the first in the history of the Soviet Union the “Golden Lion” has taken away from the festival Andrei Tarkovsky – the best was recognized as his first feature film, “Ivan’s Childhood” about the 12-year-old boy, in front of which the Nazis killed his mother and a sister. He deprived childhood and permanently injured pinned down atrocities, only in my dreams live a normal life, but in reality every day, risking their lives and vengeance sneaking behind enemy lines. One of the writers who shared the award with Tarkovsky was Andrei Konchalovsky, who helped the director adapted screenplay story Vladimir Bogomolov «Ivan».
Four pictures of Soviet filmmakers received in Venice prizes for the best films for children – for some time singled out the festival this category. In 1964, this award has won the picture Basil Shukshina «Lives kind of guy”, delivered to them in their own stories about the cheerful chauffeur Paschke Kolokol’nikova ( Leonid Kuravlev ). The following year, the best documentary of children’s tape were considered “Enchanted Islands» Alexander Zguridi , and art – “Frost» Alexander Rowe , one of the most famous and beloved of Soviet cinema tales about Nastya, Ivanushka wicked stepmother, a magician Jack Frost and of course, Baba Yaga. In 1966 he won the same award Alexander Mitta with the film scenario playwright Alexander Volodin «Calling, open the door,” which made its debut in the role of a schoolgirl actress Elena Proklova .
Over the years, special prizes and diplomas of the Venice Film Festival jury has awarded and Grigori Kozintsev («Hamlet”, 1964), and Marlena Hutsieva («I’m twenty years”, 1965 ), and Otar Iosseliani («Favorites of the Moon”, 1984), and Sergei Solovyov («Lifeguard”, 1980) – and twice. The second time – in 1986 for the film “Alien White and pock-marked.” Special Grand Jury in 2002 and received the Andrei Konchalovsky for “House of Fools” – a tragicomedy, the story is directed by “spied” on the news. Psychiatric patients boarding in Ingushetia, left the medical staff in the 90′s during the war in Chechnya, live in their own, the isolated little world – no more absurd than the ordinary world around. In 2002, the “Silver Lion” won the short film “Clown» Irina Evteyeva , is based on the “Snow Show» Slava Polunin with himself in the lead and the only role. And in 2005 the first prize of the “Horizons” got “First on the Moon» Alexei Fedorchenko – mockumentary tape on the preparations for the flight of the Soviet spacecraft to the moon.
«Golden Lion” for his contribution to cinema received Sergei Yutkevich , film and theater director, a student Meyerhold and one of the founders, along with Kozintsev and Trauberg , the manifesto of the creative association FEKS (Factories eccentric actor), and Anatoly Golovnya , the operator movies Vsevolod Pudovkin . For operators in Venice there is a separate award, a prize named Golden Osella, which was twice awarded Russian masters. In 1988 – Vadim Yusov for his work on “Black Monk» Ivan Dykhovichnyi , and exactly 20 years later, in 2008, Maxim Drozdov and Alisher Hamidhodzhaevu for the “Paper Soldier» Alexei German Jr. – a stylized movie 60 stories about the doctor Daniel Pokrovsky, his two women and Dreaming of Space. Director himself was awarded the “Silver Lion”. A little earlier, in 2003, his “Last Train” deserves a special mention in Venice.
As for the main Venetian prize – “Golden Lion” for Best Picture – at the present time Russian director handed them four times. In addition to Andrei Tarkovsky, the award received Andrei Zvyagintsev for the film “The Return” 2003, Alexander Sokurov for the “Faust” in 2011 and, of course, Nikita Mikhalkov for the film 1991 “Urga – territory of love.” Brothers Mikhalkov Konchalovsky – unconditional champions Venice, and as participants and as winners. Nikita Khrushchev in 2011, he was awarded the “Special Lion” for his contribution to cinema, and in 2014 the picture with his participation, the film George Danelia «I Step Through Moscow” was shown in competition at the “Venice Classics” . As for Andrei Konchalovsky, the “Silver Lion” this year – the third award show of the Italian director.
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