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Mam (6+)

Russia, 2003, colour, 120 min.
Director: Anatoliy Baluev
In the Komi-Permyak language the word "mam" means both "mother", and "mum". In the context of the film this word acquires one more meaning -"homeland". Among many films shot by A. Baluev on his Komi-Permyatskaya homeland this movie is a special one due to its 2 hour length but numerous associative links. By a stretch, complex composition of the film can be united in one stock phrase: "The film is about today’s bottom of one of small people of Russian".

AWARDS

Special Jury Prize at the Film Festival in Trieste (Italy), 2004.Participation in the main competition program of the festival IDFA in Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2004.The award of the Perm region in the field of culture and art.

Anatoliy Baluev

Anatoliy Baluev

was born in 1946 in the village Kochevo of Komi-Perm Autonomous District, where he graduated from the same high school. In 1969 he entered and in 1973 graduated from the faculty of Film history at Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). From 1973 he worked as an editor at first, and then a director at Sverdlovsk film studio, where he shot most of his films. In 1981, Anatoly was admitted to the Union of Cinematographers, was elected to the board of the Ural Community of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. From 1999 to 2006 he worked as a director and head of combining TV movies on STRC "Ural" (Yekaterinburg).

Most of the works the director made in his homeland – in the Komi-Permian district. The first major screen-test was the film "We were a smoke". Thanks to this film the country learned about the ancient and unique Komi-Permian people. Among the works of Anatoly Baluev there are such films as "Chorus", "Tupi-tap", "Bykoboy", "Mum", "Mirage", and «Silver Horse". The last film of Anatoly Baluev was "Stardust". Anatoly Baluev often came to Perm to the "Flahertiana", he was the guest of honour, a jury member and a participant of the festival programmes. The director passed away on May 13, 2013 at the age of 67 years.

FILMOGRAPHY

«Oh, Bicycle!», 1976; 1983; «The Fugue», 1988; «We Were Smoke», 1992; «Waves», 1994; «Tupi-tap», 1996; «The Choir», 1998; «Bikkoboy (Sacrifice of Bulls)», 2000; «Russia, beginning», 2001; «The Breath of Life», 2002; «Mam»; 2004; «San Donato», 2005; «Swing», 2006; «Silver Horse», 2011; «Stardust», 2012.
Russia, 2003, colour, 120 min.
Director: Anatoliy Baluev
In the Komi-Permyak language the word "mam" means both "mother", and "mum". In the context of the film this word acquires one more meaning -"homeland". Among many films shot by A. Baluev on his Komi-Permyatskaya homeland this movie is a special one due to its 2 hour length but numerous associative links. By a stretch, complex composition of the film can be united in one stock phrase: "The film is about today’s bottom of one of small people of Russian".

AWARDS

Special Jury Prize at the Film Festival in Trieste (Italy), 2004.Participation in the main competition program of the festival IDFA in Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2004.The award of the Perm region in the field of culture and art.