“Kinotavr” opens the future – BBC

In Sochi, opened the 26th festival “Kinotavr”: the organizers promise many years, and Stanislav Govorukhin successfully filmed Dovlatova.

Last year’s anniversary “Kinotavr” noting quarter of a century, he gave the go-ahead to a new period in the history of the festival. This year’s ceremony was dedicated to look for opportunities in the future, but, of course, with the indispensable eye on the great past. Triumph have decided the most technologically: the company leading the ceremony the leader of the “Code of Ethics” Sergei Mazaev made virtually present at the compound director Andrey Zvyagintsev screen and Alexander Kott and actor Yevgeny Stychkin. Last, in accordance with the visual code of the 26th “Kinotavr”, the emblem of which it is a postage stamp to dress up in the form of the postman. Apparently, so it was embodied the idea of ​​writing the future – a generation of young directors, many of whom this year will begin his film career thanks to the festival.

In order to give them confidence, throughout the ceremony, it was about success stories.

«Leviathan” by Andrei Zvyagintsev, ” As my name is “Nigina Sayfullaevoy,” test “by Alexander Kott – paintings that received at last year’s launch of” Kinotavr “, gathered a solid crop of Russian and foreign awards. These statistics read smear, and who shared his own legendary kinoopytom: in 1979, he went AWOL from the Army orchestra to star in a film by Stanislav Govorukhin “The venue can not be changed.” Was made during the ceremony and have announced at a press conference May alarming note: This year, the Russian Ministry of Culture has significantly reduced funding for cinema. However, a year later the organizers “Kinotavr” is calculated on the shaft decent amateur pictures.

Topical alarm at the ceremony focused more casual, stressing the confident look into the future and grateful – to the past.

Over the last posted in the first all directed by Vadim Abdrashitov, which awarded an honorary prize “For civic and artistic intransigence” was greeted with a standing ovation. Receiving the award from the president of the festival Rodnyansky, Abdrashitov stressed that his artistic integrity is primarily due to artistic reasons.

The ceremony finished song “Code of Ethics”, “I choose you,” in the course of which Sergey Mazaev managed several times to insert the text of the word “Kinotavr”.

But after the break, Stanislav Govorukhin presented his new film “The End of a Beautiful Era”, is based on a “compromise” Sergei Dovlatov.

It should be noted that the part of the director in presenting the picture at the festival is known for courage, his previous pattern of «Weekend» a few years ago was ridiculed by the public. At the “end of a great era,” people laughed too, but in those places where this involves carefully transferred to the screen dovlatovskogo prose.

Technically subject of the picture is reduced to an almost casual and short work of the journalist Andrei Lentulova in Tallinn newspaper. Govorukhin, of course, somewhat reduced the original text, and something in him changed – with all the richness of the language, as the film dovlatovskogo jokes, was not clear. As a result, “The End of a Beautiful Era” was similar to the recent “The Rum Diary” – not too well, but in his own charming adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel early. As there, the hero of the film Govorukhin acts more observer than participant in the events, which consist not so much in the story, but in an attempt to reliably remember the very “Belle Epoque.”