RIVER OF LIFE (0+)
Russia, 2011, colour, 175 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
This is a goodbye movie. Farewell to the native land, the original banks of the river and people who lived on Ankara for centuries. Again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three heroes – writer Valentin Rasputin, publisher Gennady Sapronov and critic Valentin Kurbatov.
AWARDS
TEFI National Television Competition (Russia, 2011) – Best Documentary Film, Best directing; Open Documentary Film Festival Russia (Russia, 2011) – Audience Award; Special Prize of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Sverdlovsk Region “For Civic Valor”.
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, 2011, colour, 175 min.
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
Director: Sergey Miroshnichenko
This is a goodbye movie. Farewell to the native land, the original banks of the river and people who lived on Ankara for centuries. Again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three heroes – writer Valentin Rasputin, publisher Gennady Sapronov and critic Valentin Kurbatov.
AWARDS
TEFI National Television Competition (Russia, 2011) – Best Documentary Film, Best directing; Open Documentary Film Festival Russia (Russia, 2011) – Audience Award; Special Prize of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Sverdlovsk Region “For Civic Valor”.