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Solitary World or They Sing Again (6+)

Russia, 2012, colour, 39 min.
Director: Vladimir Khaunin
Vladimir Khaunin’s film «Solitary world or they sing again» is about the present-day Palaces of Culture («Dom Kultury» or DK in Russian) in the north-east of the Kirov region. This is a documentary comedy, where people sing and dance, where they talk passionately about themselves and their groups, and where it is clearly understood that the world of the legendary DK today, in the 21st century, is abandoned, lost and wanted by no one... except its own inhabitants.

AWARDS

Diploma for the artistic reflection of the folk tradition in Russian culture, the V festival of documentary films, New York, 2012

Vladimir Khaunin

Vladimir Khaunin

was born in 1968 in Leningrad. Since 1989 begins working at the "Lenfilm" studio. In three years he rose from a property master to a deputy director of the filming crew. For ten years he collaborated with the director and film researcher Oleg Kovalev as a second director, manager and executive producer. For more than twenty years, there is a creative alliance of Vladimir Khaunin and a German filmmaker and artist Christiane Büchner. They’ve made two documentaries and a feature film together. In 1995 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre Arts (formerly LGITMiK), department of the History and Theory of Cinema. Author of several articles on contemporary theater. Author and compiler of the books «Evgeny Sazonov. Parts of the whole» (published by «Baltic Seasons», 2011), «Dubrovin. Exspressio. The traits to the portrait» (published by «Ultra-print», 2011).

FILMOGRAPHY

«In Friendship Do Know Each Other Better», 1996; «Colors of the Contemporary Mass Architecture», 1997; «Haidar, Golikov?», 2005; «A Popular History of the Russian Entrepreneurship», 2008; «Solitary World or They Sing Again», 2012.
Russia, 2012, colour, 39 min.
Director: Vladimir Khaunin
Vladimir Khaunin’s film «Solitary world or they sing again» is about the present-day Palaces of Culture («Dom Kultury» or DK in Russian) in the north-east of the Kirov region. This is a documentary comedy, where people sing and dance, where they talk passionately about themselves and their groups, and where it is clearly understood that the world of the legendary DK today, in the 21st century, is abandoned, lost and wanted by no one... except its own inhabitants.

AWARDS

Diploma for the artistic reflection of the folk tradition in Russian culture, the V festival of documentary films, New York, 2012