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Sep 12, 2016 · At this year's Venice Film Festival, Andrei Konchalovsky premiered his latest oeuvre Paradise, a story that follows three distinct characters whose lives intersect and intertwine during WWII. As I sat inside the press screening of Paradise , I realized almost immediately that Konchalovsky would win a prize in Venice, because although his film ...
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Ten years ago, Russia’s Cultural Ministry decided it should be in charge of determining the topics of the films that receive funding from the state budget. Initially, then-Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky vowed that “socially significant” films and “educational products” would get top priority. But a year later, when the first list of selected fi...
Accordingto Konchalovsky, he first had the idea to stage a film version of one of Tchaikovsky’s ballets 40 years ago — when the then-32-year-old, his father, and the director Andrey Tarkovsky wrote their first speculative screenplay, which was unsuccessful. Konchalovsky returned to the idea several times, ultimately coming up with a more specific v...
Transparency International Russia has learned that in December 2020, VEB filed a lawsuit for the unpaid load in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. According to documents from the territory’s judicial decisions registry, Andrey Konchalovsky approached VEB with his idea to make The Nutcracker in approximately 2006. A year later, Konchalovsky open...
Silver Lion. The Silver Lion ( Italian: Leone d'argento, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film at official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998. The prize has been awarded irregularly and has gone through several changes of purpose.
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Jan 6, 2017 · Andrei Konchalovsky was the winner of the Silver Lion as the Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for his current film "Paradise," which is shortlisted for the Academy Award.
Paradise ( Russian: Рай; Ray) is a 2016 Russian drama film produced and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. [2] At Venice Konchalovsky won the Silver Lion for Best Director. [3] It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film ...
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Andrei Konchalovsky, Alisher Usmanov
Sep 6, 2014 · The Silver Lion went to Russian maestro Andrei Konchalovsky’s “The Postman’s White Nights,” a drama rooted in the reality of a remote lakeside Russian village about a charismatic postman ...
Sep 11, 2016 · Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky has been awarded the Silver Lion -- the Leone d'Argento -- award for best direction at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
