
Boris Yukhananov
Directing
Biography
Boris Yurievich Yukhananov (Russian: Борис Юрьевич Юхананов; born 30 September 1957; Moscow) is a Russian director of theatre, video, cinema and TV, a theatre educator and theorist. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow. He was a pioneering figure in Russia’s underground art movement in the 1980s and 1990s and was one of the founders of the Soviet Parallel Cinema movement, which provided an alternative cinema to that which was produced by the state. His recent major works include a radical interpretation of Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird, the opera serial Drillalians and the two-part The Constant Principle. Founder of the new processualism movement, a methodology and artistic strategy that posits theatre as the focal point of all forms of art involving every aspect of time, whether it be cinema, a musical concert or performance art.
Known For

In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.
Branded

The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times.
Tractor Drivers 2

A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.
Ivan the Fool

A cyberstranger, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea, all in the first part of Sergei Loban's dilogy. - Love. This is a performance not to be missed! A love story between a fragile girl who daydreamed of becoming a princess and Cyberstranger, a mysterious young man hiding behind a nickname. A sea of tears and an abyss of despair! Can Cinderella and the Invisible Man be together? Step right up, step right up! - Friendship. Light the lights! There is a show in town today! Here is a story of a deaf young man with a flaming heart and a boy with an ice shard in his eye. Witness insidious betrayal and unbending courage! Danko and Kai – fire and ice collide! Will the universe survive the battle of the elements? A spectacle you have never seen before and will never see again!
Chapiteau Show: Love and Friendship - Part 1

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An Outrageous Woman

After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.
Leningrad. November

Boris Yukhananov's film triptych based on Andrey Vishnevsky's play "Pinocchio's Mad Angel".
Pinocchio

On the fate of a soldier Vasily Romashkin, yesterday's tenth grader, who went through all the trials of the WWII and ended his combat journey as an intelligence officer.
Take Alive

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The Mad Prince: Playing XO

How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING.
Zenboxing

The main characters of the film are Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi, participants in the most scandalous episode in the history of football. During extra time of the final match of the 2006 World Cup, pitting France against Italy, the French leader, superstar Zidane, for some unknown reason took a running start and head-butted Materazzi in the chest. Zidane was sent off the field and, as a result, the French lost the match on penalties. This head-butt and the unexpected loss were now bound together in the minds of sports fans forever. But the burning question - why did it happen? – has never been properly answered. After thoroughly studying the lives of the participants in this match, the filmmakers reveal an amazing story: The 2006 World Cup appears to us in the form of a play “directed by the Creator”.
Nazidanie

The beautiful model from Ryazan Sveta and her fellow kickboxer Stepa in early childhood took an oath to love each other to the grave. But Stepan joined the army, where he soon received news that Sveta had left for Moscow with a rich producer. Now she shines on the catwalks of the capital. Stepa decides to go to Moscow and become a kickboxing champion.
Good and Bad

Anthology film in two parts based on Ray Bradbery's stories "The Black Ferris" and "The Scythe".
Dominus

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.
Aquarium Fish of This World

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.
Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

The Genre follows the rehearsals for a theatre play by an independent company in the Soviet Union, in 1991.
Жанр
This film was shot in 1988. The main action takes place in a rock group's studio during the visit of a few acolytes from Theatre Theatre. It is all served up in connection with Fassbinder «s notion of Antitheatre. The theme of the “mad prince” in actors» improvisations intertwines with the fate of the director and of directing in general. The adventures of the spirit form the true tale of this film. We use only the single interior, the studio room where nothing happens aside from the pulsations of spirit. It comes to life here, and it rests, as if gaining new strength. The Mad Prince Fassbinder is, indeed, spirit. Only a free camera is capable of capturing this freedom.
The Mad Prince: Fassbinder

Boris Yukhananov, along with his friends Tauz, Salah, Nadia and Olya, come to shoot an episode for the video novel "The Crazy Prince" to Nikita, who in turn is in a film expedition near Pskov. Along the way, the tragic history of the Chechen people is interfaced with the biblical book of Esther, a video with a movie, love with death, the sun with night, and happiness with tears.
The Mad Prince: Esther
Delicately securing their lavalier microphones, and frequently glancing back at the camera as if it were a living being demanding warmth and engagement, Sasha, Misha, and Lyosha, who have Down syndrome, reflect on television – on how they see it and in a way we will never be able to. They are playing at television: giving interviews, conducting interviews, and reporting from the protected, pristine country of their own souls.
Yes! Downies... or the Quest for Golden Birds

A drinking play with cannons and fireworks.