The funny life of Oleg Popov

 

Written and directed by Andrey Annensky

 

A documentary about the amazing fate of a man who was once the most famous clown in the world-people's artist of the USSR Oleg Popov… Today, he is 82 years old, and although by Russian standards, due to his services to the Fatherland, he is destined for an honorable place in the most important Moscow cemetery, when the irreparable happens - he will remain far from his homeland - forever. A great artist has been living for many years with a grudge against a great country, and once he has made a decision, he remains faithful to it, while suffering deeply from the choice he made. The film will focus on the human right to choose one's own fate and the price one has to pay for a decision once made.

 

Russia, Germany, documentary, 60 min.

 

Written and directed by Andrey Annensky

 

The Producers – Andrew, Ann, Margaret Lena, Liza Antonova

 

Brothers H

 

 

Written by Elena Gremina, directed by Mikhail Ugarov

26-year-old Anton selflessly, with difficulty supports a large and dysfunctional family: a ruined father, a sick mother, a sister and older and younger brothers. Anton took responsibility for all of them from his childhood and is now engaged in daily literary work from morning to evening-writing short comic stories – 9 kopecks a line! Counting, right at the time of writing, what family expenses he can pay for. This young man is Anton Chekhov, a future great writer who only realizes his own gift, builds his life, his ethics, his "code of honor". ("To squeeze a slave out of yourself drop by drop," Anton will write a few years later about this). Next to Anton, his older brothers – Nikolai, a talented artist who never wrote his masterpiece, and Alexander, Anton's closest friend and desperate envier, a gifted writer who "wasted" his talent. The screenplay uses letters from Anton and Alexander Chekhov, memoirs of Alexander and Mikhail Chekhov, the diary of Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, as well as plot motifs from the works of Anton Chekhov "Ivanov", "Uncle Vanya", "the Seagull", "Cherry orchard", "Three years", "My life", "Joke", "Duel", and others.

 

Russia, color, 106 min.

 

Script author: Elena Gremina

 

Director of photography: Mikhail Ugarov

 

Director of photography: Alisher Khamidkhodjaev

 

Production designer: Maria Utrobina

 

Composer: Alexander Manotskov

 

Film editor: Boris Mnukhin

 

Starring: Egor Koreshkov, Artem Grigorev, Aleksandr Molochnikov, Alexander Child, Jan Irtenyev