Victor Astafyev. A Merry Soldier (0+)
Audience Award “Small Silver Nanook”
Russia, 2010, colour, 42 min.
Director: Andrey Zaitsev
Director: Andrey Zaitsev
This film is about the Great Patriotic War as viewed and known by famous Russian writer Victor Astafyev. This rare video was made two years before his death. The writer pulled no punches and revealed harsh and bitter truth of the war that he had fought at as an ordinary soldier.
Andrey Zaitsev
Andrey Zaitsev
graduated from Moscow State University named after Lomonosov as a journalist and finished Higher Courses of Directing and Scriptwriting (course of Aleksander Mitta). From 1996 to 2006 he worked for television studio “TRITE Nikita Mikhalkov” and directed more than 30 films and programs for “Rossiya”, “Kultura” and “ORT” channels.
FILMOGRAPHY
“My House”, 2001; “Gleb”, 2002; “Poster”, “Victor Astafyev. A Merry Soldier”, “Idlers”, 2010.
Audience Award “Small Silver Nanook”
Russia, 2010, colour, 42 min.
Director: Andrey Zaitsev
Director: Andrey Zaitsev
This film is about the Great Patriotic War as viewed and known by famous Russian writer Victor Astafyev. This rare video was made two years before his death. The writer pulled no punches and revealed harsh and bitter truth of the war that he had fought at as an ordinary soldier.