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Ivan Tverdovsky

Ivan Tverdovsky

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Biography

Ivan Sergeevich Tverdovsky (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Твердовский; 26 February 1961; Shchelkovo) is a Russian documentary director and producer. Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1985). Since 1988, he has been a video engineer at the Videofilm Corporation. Since 1994, he has been a director of editing at the Russian Central Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In 2001, he founded the non-fiction film studio "Point of View." Since 2001, he has been a director of documentary films. He has directed over 30 non-fiction films that have won awards at domestic and international film festivals. In 2008, he made his debut in feature film directing with the full-length film "An Incident in the City of M."

Known For

Conference
5.8

Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natalya returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.

Conference

2020
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It's almost a Gogol story, but in the context of today's realities. The administration of the small provincial town of Mukhino is preparing for the arrival of a high-ranking guest.

The Incident in the City of M

2009
Koktebel Stones
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The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung, who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel. Maximilian Voloshin in 1903 in Koktebel began to build his own house, which later became the center of the spiritual life of Russia.

Koktebel Stones

2014
Grumant: The Island of Communism
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Every year, a group of Russian seasonal workers returns to bleak Barentsburg on the island of Svalbard to perform dangerous work in the mines.

Grumant: The Island of Communism

2014
Riddles of Richard Sorge
8.0

The legendary spy obtained as much secret information as no one else could. For this, he paid with his own life.

Riddles of Richard Sorge

2005
Sweet Life
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Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.

Sweet Life

2014
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Zhukov's name was surrounded by rumors, legends, and myths during his lifetime, both positive and negative. Historians still wonder why he survived the army's "purge" before the war and why Stalin did not eliminate him in 1946, accusing him of being a Bonaparte and stealing German trophies.

Marshals of Victory: Zhukov and Rokossovsky

2005
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In the mid-50s of the last century, at the dawn of the Khrushchev thaw, an unknown young director Grigory Chukhray, whose debut - the film "Forty - first" - became a bid for big cinema, quickly and boldly broke into the Soviet cinema. Then, one after another, followed "The Ballad of the Soldier", "Clear Sky", which became a real breakthrough to historical truth and an example of civic courage.

Loyalty to the Memory of a Soldier. Grigory Chukhray

2008
Parajanov. Tarkovsky. Antipenko. Chiaroscuro
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The poetic film essay on poems by Arseny Tarkovsky reveals the mystery of the fate and work of three prominent filmmakers - Sergey Parazhdanov, Andrey Tarkovsky, Alexandr Antipenko.

Parajanov. Tarkovsky. Antipenko. Chiaroscuro

2018
Two Sides of One Horse
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To understand what is happening in modern Russia, it is not enough to go out and look around, or read news bulletins. If you want to get insight, the best way is to radically change the angle of view and look at everything, for example, with the eyes ... of a horse that serves in the operational regiment in the center of the capital.

Two Sides of One Horse

2013
Portrait «Under the Fly»
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Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.

Portrait «Under the Fly»

2008
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Three people in the remote mothballed mining village of Pyramid on the island of Svalbard are implementing a fantastic idea of the high authorities to create a large Arctic tourism center in the village.

Welcom the Pyramid

2016
Ulyanov about Ulyanov
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As film specialists write: "From the roles played by Ulyanov, one can study the history of the country". Through his roles in film and theater, he has reflected all the periods, all the historical collusions of the Soviet Union. He has interpreted more than three hundred roles, from the simple peasant to the leaders and emperors. Being laureate of all state awards, rewarded with orders and medals, cherished by power, being himself in power, he could not "be bronze". Our film is about an actor and a remarkable man: Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov.

Ulyanov about Ulyanov

2017
Pianism
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Pianism is the occupation of piano music. Means masterly possession of the instrument. In the life of the main character, the honored artist of Russia, laureate of international competitions Sergey Musaelyan, this term takes a slightly different meaning.

Pianism

2012
Trough, Skis, Bike
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40 km of dirt road. 35 villages. 12 residents. Soon there will be no one left.

Trough, Skis, Bike

2013
Long. Black. Cloud is Coming Down
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Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, hire a car, buy tickets and drive... Their parents built communism, their grandfathers overcame fascism, but for them there is nothing to built and to struggle for. Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, spend time on the internet and do not clearly understand what they are living for, don’t understand their country and don’t see a perspective in the future. Television has plagued them with Big Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and they hire a car, buy tickets and drive throughout the country to see competitions, Black sea and Russian countryside.

Long. Black. Cloud is Coming Down

2014
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A film about the history of the Orbelian family against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the 20th century.

Start Life From the Beginning. An Unimagined Story

2014
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Documentary-chronicle." A film about the 30s of the twentieth century, built exclusively on chronicle footage. His epilogue may be the phrase: "And tomorrow there was a war" - in the meantime, people go to work, walk with children, celebrate the New Year. This is a montage picture from excerpts of chronicle films of the 30s. The chronicles depict many demonstrations, processions, speeches, but in detail the life of not gods and giants, but the most ordinary people who make history is guessed.

Big Vacation of the 30s

2003
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On November 16, 1995, the UNESCO General Conference adopted the "Declaration of Principles of Tolerance". And immediately after that, the word TOLERANCE itself acquired various connotations. And there is still no clear idea of the meaning of this word. Although, in fact, everything is very simple. This is the film "Fifty Shades of Tolerance".

Fifty Shades of Tolerance

2022
Descendants of Purgas. Erzya
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A documentary about the Erzya, a native ethnic group living between the Oka and Volga rivers.

Descendants of Purgas. Erzya

2013