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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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Special View
Andrei Nekrasov # 3 |
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 / 8 pm
Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbonne, Portugal
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Andrei Nekrasov |
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Andrei Nekrasov studied acting and directing at the "Russian State Institute of Performing Arts" in his native Saint Petersburg. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, taking a master's degree, and film at Bristol University Film School. In 1985, he assisted Andrei Tarkovsky during the filming and editing of The Sacrifice. Nekrasov then made several internationally coproduced documentaries and TV arts programs (notably A Russia of One's Own, Pasternak, The Prodigal Son, and Children's Stories: Chechnya). His first drama short, Springing Lenin (1993) won the UNESCO prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and in 1997 his first feature, Love is as Strong as Death won the FIPRESCI prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg. The director’s second feature, Lubov and Other Nightmares (2001) won recognition at a great many of festivals all over the world (including Sundance and Berlin) and confirmed his status as a rebel among Russian filmmakers.
Andrei Nekrasov is also a playwright and a theater director. His German productions (of his own plays) include: Der Spieler ("The Gambler") in Euro Theater Central in Bonn and Koenigsberg in the Volksbuehne Theatre in Berlin.
Nekrasov's 2007 film, Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case (U.S. Title: Poisoned by Pollonium. The Litvinenko File) presents interviews with assassinated former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya.[1] The movie contends that Russian state security service FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, organized bombings of apartments in Moscow and taking hostages in a Moscow theater to justify the second war in Chechnya and bring Vladimir Putin to power. The film was premiered in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
His films include the documentary Disbelief (?????????) on the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. This film is available in DVD as an extra to Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case, but a low resolution version is available on Google Video.
"Russian Lessons, co-directed and produced by his wife Olga Konskaya and Norwegian Producer Torstein Grude deals with the Russian-Georgian war of 2008. It documents a journey by two directors-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, one on each side of the frontline during the hostilities. For this documentary, Nekrasov was named The Person of 2009 in the Georgian Public Broadcaster's internet survey. |
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Russian Lesson |
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Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya
Russia, Norway
2010 / 1:40:00
The film starts as a journey by the two directors-protagonists. Olga
and Andrei, on the two sides of the frontline during the
Russian-Georgian was in August 2008. A film on such a hot political
(and geopolitical) subject first of all establishes emotional contact
with the audience by depicting human drama, before coming up with
political conclusions. They emerge naturally and powerfully as
overwhelming evidence of Russian imperialist plot shows through the
Russian media smokescreen as well as mistakes and naivety of the
Georgians. The filmmakers return to their St. Petersburg studio loaded
with unique footage and evidence which they analyze in the process of
film-editing. This process is intertwined in the film's narrative and
the viewer gets a sense of partaking in it. In this way the filmmakers
are able to come to forceful conclusions without slipping into
propaganda and prejudice that charachterize too many films about the
August war. Importantly the film puts the recent war in context of the
post-Soviet history which has managed to keep its darkest secrets away
from the international public's attention despite dozens of relevant
UN resolutions. At the same time as Milosevic was earning the
reputation of the biggest evil of the post-communist world, Russia was
sponsoring and conducting the campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing
against the Georgian population of integral parts of Georgia, with
cruelty exceeding that of the war in former Yugoslavia.
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