Russia (bbabo.net), - The Cinema Club starts showing a multi-part documentary film "My life, or did I dream about you?".

This is a tape of meetings with magnificent people who made the glory of Soviet and Russian cinema. With actors, directors and entire institutions that nurtured our new cinematic offspring.

This is a chain of the most interesting stories about working with these actors, about friendship with these directors, and about the almost unimaginable cultural space that our multinational cinematography was today. It was a space where films from Latvia received multi-million dollar distribution from Riga to Vladivostok. Where Moscow actors Andrei Myagkov and Valentin Gaft flew to film at the Odessa Film Studio, and Lithuanian Donatas Banionis came to Moscow to shoot with Savva Kulish. When the whole vast country enjoyed the new Georgian paintings by Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkheidze, Georgy Shengelaya and was looking forward to them. When the Institute of Cinematography and the foyer of the House of Cinema were the usual meeting place for the masters of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Moldova ...

This is not nostalgia for the lost. This is amazement at what should be the norm in communication between peoples and countries, but is becoming more inaccessible.

In the center of the series - Alexander Muratov. Director, first husband of the great and unique Kira Muratova. He directed such films as "Avdotya Pavlovna", "Big Trouble Because of a Little Boy", "Old Fortress", "Lyubasha", "Tango of Death", "Vertical Racing". They were played by such masters as Isolda Izvitskaya, Nikolai Grinko, Tatyana Peltzer, Leonid Nevedomsky, Rimma Markova, Galina Polskikh, Valentin Gaft, Vladislav Galkin, Lyubov Sokolova, Emmanuil Vitorgan ... In the series, the director talks about how such films as "Short Meetings" by Kira Muratova, "Vertical Racing" with Andrei Myagkov, speaks about his vision of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov and Vladimir Vysotsky, about meetings in the corridors of VGIK ... He expresses his opinions about the largest figures of our culture, sometimes controversial, subjective, but always interesting and deeply reasoned.

So we start. Thanks to the authors of the film, director Alexander Parfyonov and producer Valery Golyak, for the opportunity to show the film in our club.

The first part is about the filming of Kira Muratova's film "Short Encounters" and about working with Vladimir Vysotsky. Ahead - meetings with Vasily Shukshin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, meetings within the walls of VGIK and much more.

Direct speech

Valeriy Golyak, producer:

Profession of director is romantic, but often cruel and ungrateful. The names of most directors are not known to the general public, they remain almost forgotten. Well, who now remembers Nahum Birman, Vladimir Shredel, Ayat Shakhmaliyeva, Viktor Aristov, Sergey Mikaelyan? Although their wonderful films with enviable regularity are on television.

We tried to fill one of the gaps and tell about Alexander Igorevich Muratov. More precisely, we gave him the opportunity to tell about himself. Together with his memories, people will come to you, without whom our beloved cinema cannot be imagined. What came out of it, only you can judge. We can only hope that these meetings will not disappoint you.

Alexander Parfyonov, director:

This is an important film for me, the first full-length documentary, and also a series. After that, there will be more non-fiction films, a sports documentary "Mad", and a film about the world of the theater by Nikolai Rushkovsky "Rushkovtsy: The Way of the Master". But all of them might not have taken place if not for this landmark meeting with Muratov. We became friends with Alexander Igorevich during the filming of the series "My Life ..", and subsequently he helped me more than once in preparing scripts and casting on my projects. I always tried to absorb his invaluable directing and life experience to the maximum and cherished every meeting or phone call. To a large extent, I consider Muratov my teacher in directing.

Our film is not just a story of life, but the story of an era in cinema, told in the first person and connecting a huge number of people. Their contribution to domestic, and sometimes world cinema, can hardly be overestimated. Revealed in completely unexpected details for us, they will appear before you in a series of nostalgic mini-stories about these iconic meetings.

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