Director of Photography
Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance at the best stages of the world, and grateful, understanding and appreciating art public. But, probably, not everyone knows that all this began in the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, when the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) theater and the Vaganovo Ballet School were already evacuated from Molotov, which was already practically blocked by the fascists of Leningrad, to the city of Molotov (then Perm was called). Then this evacuation novel, which continues to this day, began
Cinematography
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist's works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.
Director of Photography
The head of the American humanitarian organization has a serious problem. She is "narcotic" dependent on American dollars. The psychoanalyst advises her to leave the States. Hannah arrives in Moscow. And he heads the humanitarian fund. Her foundation imports chicken legs to Russia. When checking another large batch of chicken legs, Hannah discovers that the chicken legs are infected with a dangerous virus. Her Russian counterpart offers her $ 1,000,000 in cash so she can give permission to import chicken legs to Russia. Hannah physiologically cannot refuse such an amount. But she cannot live on, becoming a bribe taker. And then a mental transformation takes place with her...
Camera Operator
A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.
