Pictures From the Provincial Comic’s Life (0+)
Russia, 1997, b/w, 63 min.
Director: Pavel Pechenkin
Director: Pavel Pechenkin
When an ordinary guy’s ambitious dream about an actor's career meets cruel reality, life very often turns into a tragedy or drama. Film’s plot is based on a traditional conflict for Russian provincial theater: everyone dreams of being a Hamlet. But what if a person is a comic by nature? To what kind of a play will he be casted by the dramaturg of his life? The genre of this film is named by the author a tragic comedy on an actor's life.
Pavel Pechenkin
Pavel Pechenkin
was born in 1956. Director and producer awarded with multiple international film festival prizes. One of the founders and the President of the IDFF Flahertiana, a member of the Russian Filmmakers Union, a member of the Russian Film Academy.
FILMOGRAPHY
Favourite, 1991, Satan’s Ashes, 1992, About Olya in Captivity, 1993; Pictures from the provincial comic’s life, 1997; Dancing Lesson, 2007; Varlam Shalamov. Experience of a Youth, 2014; From Oryol to Prague. Black Knife Division, 2020; «Семейный портрет», 2023.
Russia, 1997, b/w, 63 min.
Director: Pavel Pechenkin
Director: Pavel Pechenkin
When an ordinary guy’s ambitious dream about an actor's career meets cruel reality, life very often turns into a tragedy or drama. Film’s plot is based on a traditional conflict for Russian provincial theater: everyone dreams of being a Hamlet. But what if a person is a comic by nature? To what kind of a play will he be casted by the dramaturg of his life? The genre of this film is named by the author a tragic comedy on an actor's life.