YUZ, JAZZ, IRKA AND THE DOG (16+)
Russia, 2005, colour, 70 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
In Soviet times, the songs “Soviet Easter”, “Okurochek”, “Comrade Stalin” were sung by the whole country (and according to rumors, by members of the Politburo as well). However, few knew that these “folk” hits had an author – Yuz Aleshkovsky. Having travelled from east to west, he became a famous writer in a country that is still considered the most reading nation in the world. The concepts of freedom and creativity for him are not philosophical categories but a life credo. The genre of this film by Sergey Miroshnichenko can be defined as a “lyrical post-Soviet comedy with a dramatic connotation.”
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Sergey Miroshnichenko
was born in Chelyabinsk in 1955. In 1983, he graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (documentary faculty, A.S.Kochetkov’s workshop). He worked with Sverdlovsk film studio, and Nikita Mikhalkov’s studio «TRITE” until founding his own studio «Ostrov” in 1999. He is still art director of «Ostrov” studio. Since 1998, he is a professor at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. Winner of multiple Russian and international awards.
FILMOGRAPHY
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: Island, 1981; Varvara’s Key, 1985; Lady Tundra, 1986; Chastushka. ХХ century, 1989; Born in the USSR: Age 7, 1990; Mystery of Marriage, 1992; Moscow Angel, 2001; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Not Live By Lies, 2001; Georgiy Zhzhonov. Russian Cross, 2003; The Word, 2008; River of Life, 2011; Rings of the World, 2015.
Russia, 2005, colour, 70 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
In Soviet times, the songs “Soviet Easter”, “Okurochek”, “Comrade Stalin” were sung by the whole country (and according to rumors, by members of the Politburo as well). However, few knew that these “folk” hits had an author – Yuz Aleshkovsky. Having travelled from east to west, he became a famous writer in a country that is still considered the most reading nation in the world. The concepts of freedom and creativity for him are not philosophical categories but a life credo. The genre of this film by Sergey Miroshnichenko can be defined as a “lyrical post-Soviet comedy with a dramatic connotation.”