Konstantin Atamanyuk
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Biography
Documentary filmmaker and editor. In 2014, he graduated from VGIK, where he studied under Igor Grigoriev. He worked with Alexander Rastorguev and Pavel Kostomarov. His own works Chess Pride (2020), Pavlov’s Mammoth (2020), and Lyudochka (2022) have been shown at numerous Russian and international festivals, including Eurobest, MasterDoc, Artdocfest, and Lendoc Film Festival.
Known For
For half a century, elderly scholar Professor Igor Vladimirovich Vishev has championed a radically new vision of humanity’s boldest dream: the attainment of de facto immortality. Blind since youth, he is cared for with quiet devotion by Vera, a frail old woman who is not his wife, but a loyal companion of many years. Professor Vishev believes that the physical death of the body is not the end, and he looks with hope toward a brighter future beyond his own passing.
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The life of elite chess players during a prestigious international tournament. Portraits of world Champions, their everyday humor and analysis of games played, interests in gay pride and classical music concerts. Behind the scenes of the beautiful world of chess, where people were able to keep the joy of the profession and communication.
Chess Pride
A group of scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), led by Innokentiy Pavlov, with the support of residents of the Alaikhovsky ulus, in early June 2019, went to the northern tip of Kotelny Island of the Novosibirsk Islands archipelago in the Arctic. The goal is to extract fragments of a mammoth carcass in the intertidal zone of the Arctic Ocean.