Russian Reserve (0+)
Russia, 2008, 60 min.
Director: Valery Timoshenko
Director: Valery Timoshenko
A film about Russian village, an ordinary Orthodox parish which is viewed as just the ideal ecovillage so many times discussed by Green parties. But in this world meeting which modern people feel sincere amazement and wonder in the face of Life and Creation ordinary people live. They gathered in a small village over a river, around a white church build in the end of 18th century to live together, to work together, to smile at each other and at least to be patient towards each other. To do so people need to believe in something common.
AWARDS
Grand Prix of Catholic Films Festival «Magnificat», Belarus, 2009; Grand Prix of the International Ecological Film Forum «Zolotoy Vitiaz», Moscow, 2009; Best Documentary at Orthodox Films Festival «Vstrecha», Obninsk, 2009.
Valery Timoshenko
Valery Timoshenko
was born on 21 January, 1959 in Krasnodar. He graduated from Script and Film Studies Department of VGIK, worked as script writer and documentary filmmaker. In 1989 he was commander of rescue team during earthquake in Armenia. He worked as cameraman and film director during military conflicts in Karabakh, Abkhazia, Chechnya and South Ossetia. Now he is president of ANO «N. Minervin Krasnodar Film Studio» and board member of Filmmakers’ Union of Russia.
FILMOGRAPHY
«Quiet Zone» 1993; «Old master», 1994, «Nature Reserve», 1994, «The Russian Blues», 1994, «Slavic Dance», 1996, «Free World», 1998, «The Black Sea Troopers» (screenwriter, cameraman), 2000, «Witness for the prosecution», 2002, «The Lonely Paradise», 2002, «The Living Sea», 2003, «Salute, Amigo!», 2006, «Two Battalion Commanders», 2007, «The Cossacks in Abyssinia», 2008; «Russian Reserve», 2008, «Trezvites!» (Get sober), 2012; «Peasant Story» 2013; «Clean Sweep», 2013.
Russia, 2008, 60 min.
Director: Valery Timoshenko
Director: Valery Timoshenko
A film about Russian village, an ordinary Orthodox parish which is viewed as just the ideal ecovillage so many times discussed by Green parties. But in this world meeting which modern people feel sincere amazement and wonder in the face of Life and Creation ordinary people live. They gathered in a small village over a river, around a white church build in the end of 18th century to live together, to work together, to smile at each other and at least to be patient towards each other. To do so people need to believe in something common.
AWARDS
Grand Prix of Catholic Films Festival «Magnificat», Belarus, 2009; Grand Prix of the International Ecological Film Forum «Zolotoy Vitiaz», Moscow, 2009; Best Documentary at Orthodox Films Festival «Vstrecha», Obninsk, 2009.