Valentin Silvestrov

Birth : 1937-09-30, Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)

History

Valentin Silvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist.

Movies

A Cherry Orchard
Music
Short animated musical performance of a work by Valentin Silvestrov based on Taras Shevchenko's verses, combined with animation of each line of the poem by different young directors.
Two in One
Original Music Composer
This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
The Tuner
Original Music Composer
A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
Untouched by the West
Music
Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by some hunters and becomes a highly respected guide while trying to escape colonization.
Chekhovian Motifs
Original Music Composer
The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.
Garden of Gethsemane
Sound Designer
Based on a novel by Ivan Bahryanyi. About the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s.
No Great Loss...
Original Music Composer
Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, they don't want to get out...
The Rooks
Original Music Composer
Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary participant in serious crimes and, in the end, is in the dock. A sentence is not passed for a long time, because it is important for a judge to understand the degree of guilt of each of the brothers, to get to the bottom of the truth, to find out what turned ordinary guys into robbers and killers.
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
Original Music Composer
Michail helps out Nicolai and Lubia giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory.
Quarantine
Original Music Composer
During an experiment, an accident occurs at the Institute of Epidemiology. To prevent the virus of a deadly disease from penetrating the walls of the laboratory, five employees remain in quarantine. In this situation, people reveal themselves in the most unexpected ways.