Vladislav Kozlov
Birth : 1976-07-22, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR (now Russia)
History
Vladislav Alex Kozlov is an award-winning director. At the age of three, he began stuttering so heavily that he could barely speak. Vladislav's parents, concerned about his speech impairment, wanted their son to have a quiet career as an office lawyer, who would work with papers and wouldn't have to talk to people much. But Vladislav, an artist at heart, secretly started taking theater acting and directing lessons. Miraculously, the acting lessons considerably improved Vladislav's speech. Vladislav left for Hollywood to pursue his dreams.
After several years of working as an extra in Hollywood, and being inspired by watching the biggest directors and actors at work, Vladislav decided to make his own movie. His strong resemblance to the silent screen idol, Rudolph Valentino, fascination with Old Hollywood, and his speech problem resulted in a conception of a silent film about his childhood idol Rudolph Valentino. In 2006 Vladislav directed, co-wrote, and produced a 17-minute silent B/W short film "Daydreams of Rudolph Valentino", where he also starred as Rudolph Valentino. The project was funded and supported by Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where Rudolph Valentino is buried. Vladislav also showed considerable producing talent as he convinced a number of vendors and industry professionals to donate their equipment, locations, and services to the project.
In 2009 Vladislav decided to expand his short film project about Rudolph Valentino and over a period of 10 years, it grew into a feature film "Silent Life" starring Terry Moore, Isabella Rossellini, Franco Nero, Sherilyn Fenn, Paul Rodriguez, and Monte Markham. The project is currently in post-production and will be released in 2022. Vladislav was an apprentice of Hollywood veteran editor Frank Morriss ("Duel"by Stephen Spielberg, "Romancing the Stone" by Robert Zemeckis, "Blue Thunder" by John Badham). Frank was teaching Vladislav how to edit for over 5 years using the old Hollywood technique.
In August 2019 Vladislav won First Prize for Best Director at Rhode Island International Film Festival for his Neo-Noir short film about cryonics "The Killers". Said Shawn M. Quirk, Program Director, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival: "Vladislav Kozlov has made something exceptional with his film "The Killers". Through merging the macabre, science fiction, and neo-realism, he has dared to bring an unbelievable tale about the human condition to light and has redefined the cinematic experience in the process."
Vladislav is working on several other projects - a Hybrid "American Superman" about a man who has been dressing up as Superman to work on the Walk of Fame as a costume character for 25 years and his down spiral into homelessness.
Rudolph Valentino
1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.
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1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.
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A famous comedian Paul is performing at a San Francisco comedy club and then decides to go to the Golden Gate Bridge to jump off it. On the bridge, Paul notices a special telephone for suicide prevention, which says "PUSH FOR HELP".
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A documentary about Christopher Dennis, who dressed as Superman and posed for photographs on Hollywood Boulevard for twenty years.
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Screenplay
Paolo is dying of cancer. His grandson Max is adamant about saving his beloved “Papa” with cryonics - in hopes that science will allow resurrecting the dead in the near future. Max’s mother, a single, alcoholic, wandering Catholic gets in the way of this salvation plan...
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Paolo is dying of cancer. His grandson Max is adamant about saving his beloved “Papa” with cryonics - in hopes that science will allow resurrecting the dead in the near future. Max’s mother, a single, alcoholic, wandering Catholic gets in the way of this salvation plan...
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Paolo is dying of cancer. His grandson Max is adamant about saving his beloved “Papa” with cryonics - in hopes that science will allow resurrecting the dead in the near future. Max’s mother, a single, alcoholic, wandering Catholic gets in the way of this salvation plan...
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Laura, an alcoholic single mother believes in God but her faith is only nominal. Her trans-humanist son Max, who is convinced that soon the scientists will be able to resurrect dead people, tries to freeze his dying grandfather (Laura's father) in order to save him. These events shake Laura's life to the very core and help her to renew her faith and resurrect her spirit.
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Hollywood, the year is 1926. Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon and first sex symbol, is at the height of his career, promoting his latest film “Son of The Sheik” inNew York. At the hotel room after the premiere, Valentino, abandoned by his wife and friends, suddenly collapses in a fit of sharp abdominal pain. In a hospital, he undergoes the surgery for ruptured appendix and falls into a state of coma. Wandering in the depths of his subconsciousness, he watches his own life as a film projected on the screen of an empty mysterious movie palace - a magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion.
Mountaineer
Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passionate encounters. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him… The story, based on the larger-than-life hero Pechorin, is adapted from Mikhail Lermontov’s literary masterpiece in three separate stories recounting his heartbreaking betrayals. Is Pechorin a real hero? Or is he a man like any other? This brand new production by choreographer Yuri Possokhov is a tragic poetic journey that can only be seen at the Bolshoi. Filmed live on April 9th 2017.
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French Doll
On Christmas Eve, Marie is given a wooden nutcracker as a gift. When the clock strikes midnight, the Nutcracker transforms into a prince and saves Marie from the Mouse King and his army. This beloved holiday classic will enchant the whole family with its fairytale setting and Tchaikovsky’s timeless score. This live version of The Nutcracker, created for the Bolshoi by Yuri Grigorovich, is full of romanticism and philosophical reflections on ideal love.
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This minimalist B/W silent short film depicts the last days of the famous film-icon of the 1920's, Rudolph Valentino. Having unsuccessfully undergone an operation to remove appendicitis Valentino develops peritonitis and slips into coma. While in the depths of his subconscious, Valentino has surrealistic visions of the last days of his life. Though he is passionately idolized by millions of women around the world, he is deeply unhappy in his private life. Valentino is deeply and hopelessly in love with his wife, who does not reciprocate his feelings. Though he has been dubbed "The Great Lover" and "The Sheik", he becomes submerged in obscurity and loneliness during his life. As he sees images from his life flash before him, he understands that fate, having given him fame and glory, has also taken from him the dearest and most important things in the life.
Executioner (uncredited)
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
Survivor
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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The documentary "The Bridge" is telling the story about the friendship between Americans and Russians and how art can bring people together despite global politics.
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The year is 1926. While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After the emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip of reality and sees visions of his past life in Hollywood in a perspective of a coma - as a silent film screening at a movie palace, the magical portal between reality and illusion, between life and eternity... Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino reigns the screen as a dashing and virile "Sheik" and drives his female audience in hysteria. Off screen, however, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness.
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Christopher Dennis AKA Hollywood Superman tragically dies. While his close friends and relatives are giving eulogy at his funeral at the Forest Lawn cemetery, the story takes us back to his past when he was disowned by his father as a rebellious child and grew up in orphanages in 1970's America. After turbulent childhood, drug addiction creeps in, but Chris fights it by choosing the good side as he becomes the first costume character on the walk of fame and works as Hollywood Superman making tourists smile. Portraying a kind and helping Superman helps Chris to stay afloat. After 25 years many changes happen, not just to Chris but to the whole country, and Superman character is out of favor as Joker becomes the modern hero. Haunted by the inner addiction demons of his past, Chris loses his Superman costume and spirals into homelessness. His last wish to be buried in his Superman costume is fulfilled.
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