Andrey Istratov

The documentary film "Cinematic Language of the Era: Marlen Khutsiev" is timed to coincide with the upcoming centenary of the master. In our film, talking about the life, work and dreams of Marlen Khutsiev, we focus the viewer's attention on the master's unique film language. And through cinematic language we reveal the director's personality.

About the life and work of Boris Vasilyevich Barnet.

The film is based on a conversation about the directing techniques of Galina Volchek, about the search for intonation when creating performances, which was continuously going on not only on stage, but also behind the scenes, where sensitivity and understanding when working with fellow actors were side by side with rigidity in building a global and very complex mechanism - theater! The film focuses on the intransigence of the Wolf director, but the maternal tenderness and spiritual generosity of Galina Borisovna, for whom Sovremennik was not just a theater, but the first and only home.

People have been living in space for a long time, in a big House called planet Earth, but only six decades ago we became the real owners of this House, because we got the opportunity to go out and look at it from the outside, from the top point. We have found the perfect tool and limitless opportunities for observing and studying the Earth. How many amazing discoveries have been made since then thanks to scientific instruments raised into orbit. We found out where most of the oxygen we breathe actually comes from, how such powerful and dangerous natural phenomena as typhoons and hurricanes are formed, we looked deep underground and found fantastic processes there. And this is only the beginning, only the first steps in the holistic and systematic knowledge of this beautiful and mysterious space object.

This film about the process of technical discovery, insight, and the "theory of the internal explosion" of man is based on the real facts and events of 1988 in the USSR related to the implementation of the treaty with the Americans on the elimination of medium- and short-range missiles. And 1966 - related to the creation and demonstration launches of missiles in front of French President General De Gaulle. And the backbone of the plot was the story of the physicist and lyricist, the uncle of the author of the film, Anatoly Grigoryevich Istratov - the author of the technical monograph "The Theory of aluminum Gorenje". Without the key discovery described in the monograph, not a single solid-fuel rocket would have flown.

An experimenter and inventor of many different film effects, including the "effect" of his name, an improviser and teacher, a decorator of salon melodramas and a revolutionary, an auto enthusiast and a dashing hussar! And this is all the same person – Lev Kuleshov.