Sergey Livnev

Sergey Livnev

Nacimiento : 1964-04-16, Moscow, USSR (Russia)

Historia

Director, producer, scriptwriter. Studied in the departments of cinematography (class of V. Yusov) and scriptwriting (class of A. Bizyak) at the Film Institute VGIK. In 1988 the first film based on his script hit the screens: “ASSA” (dir. Sergei Soloviev). He directed two films: “Kiks” (1991) and “Hammer and Sickle” (1994). Both films have won numerous awards at national and international festivals, and participated in the competition programmes of Kinotavr. For the next 23 years Livnev worked in film production, both in Russia and America, repeatedly entering the chart of the top-10 Russian producers. In 2017 returned to directing and made the film “Van Goghs”, based on his own script.

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Sergey Livnev

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Van Goghs
Screenplay
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.
Van Goghs
Producer
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.
Van Goghs
Director
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.
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Producer
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The Dive
Producer
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No Love in the City 3
Producer
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Corporal vs. Napoleon
Producer
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Gop-Stop
Producer
The PyraMMMid
Producer
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Office Romance. Our time
Producer
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Love and the City 2
Producer
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Fonogramma Strasti
Story
Vita, an employee of a private spy agency, is handed a case of tapping into and listening to the mysterious life of a new "client". By day, her work on the case seems all the more routine; by night she's involved in a steamy and passionate affair. Sooner rather than later however, Vita realizes that the man with whom she is having an affair with, is the same man she's been spying on for the agency. From this point on nothing is what it seems, as Vita becomes entangled into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Love and the City
Producer
Three Russian friends work in New York, party hard and chase women. It's great times until they get cursed by a drunken Russian night club owner, who turns out to be Saint Valentine. St. Valentine's curse is simple - the guys lose all their manly powers until they find their true love. It turns out to be harder than it sounds - our boys have a lot of growing up to do. Fast.
Hitler's Kaput!
Producer
A Russian WW2 spy spoof following misadventures of a clueless Soviet secret agent trapped inside Hitler's inner circle.
Virginity
Writer
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The Iris Effect
Producer
In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg and she decides to travel alone to Russia to search for Thomas. Once there, she is not able to locate him and she has a nervous breakdown, but with the support of Dr. Ivan and helped by a street boy, she discloses what happened with her son.
El segundo frente
Producer
En medio de la II Guerra Mundial, los servicios de inteligencia de Inglaterra, Alemania y Rusia chocaron en una lucha feroz por la mente de Nicky Raus, un genio científico judío alemán que se está desarrollando un arma de enorme poder. Un agente americano, Frank Hossom, entra en el juego cuando los agentes alemanes emprenden una audaz operación robar el científico. Frank tiene que conseguir el científico de vuelta - vivo o muerto. Su misión se complica por su relación con el desarrollo de Olga Ryabina, amante de Nicky, una actriz obligados a trabajar para la KGB. El triángulo amoroso y la intriga internacional tejen en una red mortal...
The Burning Land
Producer
A young Jewish-American female singer is trapped in the USSR behind the enemy lines during the WWII...
The Arena (Gladiatrix)
Producer
Un par de esclavas amazonas se verán forzadas a luchar como gladiadoras en la arena romana. Producida por Roger Corman, se trata de un remake del film "The Arena", protagonizado en 1974 por Pam Grier.
Playing in Bracelets
Producer
Thirteen years old Dato is in love with his classmate Lena but in a same time is intrigued by the attention he's getting from an adult criminal boss.
Country of the Deaf
Producer
Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return she wants her to leave the young man and run off with her to an imaginary paradise where material values do not exist.
New Year Story
Producer
A secret unit to combat aliens has been operating since the Second World War, as we learn from newsreels. The action is transferred to New Year's Eve, 1998, to the Gorky Film Studio, where the New Year's program is being filmed. Among the filmmakers, in addition to the mummers, there was also one real Santa Claus, who has been fulfilling one wish once a year for 2 million years. Three guards, a girl from a variety show, a revived dummy and a mischievous boy fought off the international anti-alien forces and tried to come up with this one desire, but they could not. And when Santa Claus disappeared (his time was up) everyone found a gift in the bag that perfectly matched their wishes.
Manantial de serpientes
Producer
Historia provincial, bellamente representada en el espíritu del siniestro detective. Dina, la estudiante del Instituto Pedagógico, viene a la práctica al pequeño pueblo paralizado por el miedo. Una serie de asesinatos misteriosos que parecen chicas muy diferentes obligando a los residentes a pensar que es una obra de un maníaco.
Hammer and Sickle
Producer
A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce.
Hammer and Sickle
Writer
A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce.
Hammer and Sickle
Director
A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce.
Russian Ragtime
Producer
In Soviet Union young Misha is dreaming to see USA, but it seems highly unlikely...
Cracked
Producer
A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems.
Cracked
Writer
A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems.
Cracked
Director
A movie producer tries to find a double for a diva with drug problems.
Love
Producer
Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.
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Screenplay
Assa
Writer
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.