Denis Klebleev

Denis Klebleev

History

Denis Klebleev (1981) is a filmmaker and cinematographer from Moscow. In 2012 he graduated from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film. His diploma film 31st Haul (2012) won the Best Feature Film prize at Artdocfest (Moscow) and was selected for several film festivals (including Hot Docs and Cinema du Reel). His second documentary Strange Particles (2015) premiered at Cinema Du Reel (Paris), where it received two prizes. It was later screened at various well-known international festivals (Hot Docs, Dok-Leizpig, Locarno, Viennale, etc.). In 2015 he was a member of the jury for the short film competition at the Locarno Film Festival. The world premiere of his new documentary King Lear took place at Hot Docs (Toronto) in April 2018.

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Denis Klebleev

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Carpenter
Director of Photography
The Osipovs are a very ordinary family from Ulyanovsk. Father, mother and son. They are no different from thousands and thousands of other families, except that they are happy. They love each other. The sudden illness of the son drives through them with an asphalt roller. Parents are ready for anything, they lose their home, and sometimes their human form, trying to save their child. At some point, even the mother breaks down. But not the father. The most ordinary person. A provincial carpenter.
Nuuccha
Director of Photography
In late nineteenth-century Yakutia, Habji and his wife Keremes have just buried their second child, and are preparing for a harsh winter of famine. Instead of giving them the help he promised, the local prince foists a Russian convict, Kostya, on the family, who the law decrees must live in the same house as them. They initially struggle to find a common language, and the convict soon decides that he will be the master of the house from now on.
The Legend of Siegfried
Thanks
The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The film raises questions about the nature of the student-teacher relationship, which inevitably involves submission and conflict, and the nature of the director and hero relationship, which is based on love and a little manipulation.
Alisa: Excitement
Screenplay
The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.
Alisa: Excitement
Director of Photography
The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.
Alisa: Excitement
Editor
The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.
Alisa: Excitement
Director
The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.
Concentrate On Breathing
Producer
How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily challenges the girl.
50
Director of Photography
Sergey "Pakhom" Pakhomov, an actor, psychic and cultural figure, let's say, of a broad profile, celebrated his 50th anniversary by making a pilgrimage from the beginning to the end of Tverskaya Street and back 50 times.
King Lear
Screenplay
An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
King Lear
Sound Editor
An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
King Lear
Producer
An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
King Lear
Editor
An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
King Lear
Cinematography
An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
King Lear
Director
An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.
The Thick Woman
Director of Photography
Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”
Von Sängern und Mördern
Cinematography
The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organised with a flourish in which the convicts from all over Russia sing their way to victory with songs about longing, war, love and forgiveness.
Blueberry Fields
Director of Photography
After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.
Strange Particles
Director
A quantum physicist teaches students at the university summer camp.
Optical Axis
Director of Photography
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century, he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers, and monks. Hundred yours later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes. And they recognized each other.
31ый рейс
Director
Surrounded by swamps, bugs and impassable mountain ranges, the tiny outpost town of Tigil in north-easternmost Russia is as rugged as the people who live there. Filmmaker Denis Klebleev delivers a keenly observed glimpse into their coarse—and rather scandalous—world of hard, simple living. Struggling along an unforgiving dirt path, drivers Yura and Vitalik haul supplies to waiting villagers in an aging tank made of spare parts. At the other end waits Yura’s wife Sveta, a brash, foul-mouthed woman who rules the roost and their delivery business. Their hard labour whets voracious appetites for cursing, drink, rampant sexism and literal tons of hauled food. Beautifully composed shots reveal a rough romanticism for a way of life so foreign to most, and so passionately lived by the few who take it on. 31st Haul is an original and rarely seen study of human relationships.
Winter, Go Away!
Director of Photography
Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.
Winter, Go Away!
Director
Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.