Rings of the World (6+)
Russia, 2015, colour, 151 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Pain, fear, desire, the joy of victory and the bitterness of defeat: the official film of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, created by decree of the International Olympic Committee (Lausanne), gives the greatest world champions a human face. Gripping shots taken during the events alternate with interviews of worldwide legends in winter sports, who express their thoughts on sportsman’s role in the modern world, and also about war, patriotism, morals, and the ever-changing balance of femininity and masculinity in sport and in society.
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, 2015, colour, 151 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Pain, fear, desire, the joy of victory and the bitterness of defeat: the official film of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, created by decree of the International Olympic Committee (Lausanne), gives the greatest world champions a human face. Gripping shots taken during the events alternate with interviews of worldwide legends in winter sports, who express their thoughts on sportsman’s role in the modern world, and also about war, patriotism, morals, and the ever-changing balance of femininity and masculinity in sport and in society.