The Balloonist (2023)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 23М
Директор : Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter, Yueyao Wang
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Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley of Vermont.
The Arts Council commissioned this film to coincide with their major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in the summer of 1965. A similar exhibition was held concurrently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, sealing the artist's reputation as a modern master.
Героическая романтика профессии в рассказе о жизненном пути лётчика-испытателя Юрия Гарнаева, трагически погибшего вместе со своим экипажем во время тушения лесных пожаров во Франции в 1967 году. В фильме звучит простая и гениальная музыка Олега Каравйчука.
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