Karen SHAKHNAZAROV
Карен ШАХНАЗАРОВ
Karen CHAKHNAZAROV
USSR, 1986, 88mn 
Colour, fiction
Courier
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Курьер

 

 Le Coursier

 Kuryer

 
Directed by : Karen SHAKHNAZAROV (Карен ШАХНАЗАРОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr BORODIANSKY (Александр БОРОДЯНСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Oleg BASILASHVILY (Олег БАСИЛАШВИЛИ) ...Le père de Katia
Inna CHURIKOVA (Инна ЧУРИКОВА) ...La mère d'Ivan
Fyodor DUNAEVSKY (Федор ДУНАЕВСКИЙ) ...Ivan
Svetlana KRIUCHKOVA (Светлана КРЮЧКОВА)
Vladimir MENSHOV (Владимир МЕНЬШОВ)
Anastasia NEMOLIAEVA (Анастасия НЕМОЛЯЕВА) ...Katia
Aleksandr PANKRATOV-CHERNY (Александр ПАНКРАТОВ-ЧЕРНЫЙ)
 
Cinematography : Nikolay NEMOLYAYEV (Николай НЕМОЛЯЕВ)
Production design : Konstantin FOROSTENKO (Константин ФОРОСТЕНКО)
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Sound : Vitali SHMELKIN (Виталий ШМЕЛЬКИН)
Production : Mosfilm
Film revenue in Russia : 0.020197 million dollars
Spectators : 34,4 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Special Prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1987
Prix spécial au Festival de Moscou, 1987
Meilleur film de l’année selon un sondage du journal Sovietski ecran
31 millions de spectateurs en 1987 (6ème place)

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico

Plot synopsis
Based on the novel of the same name by K. Shakhnasarov. A school graduate Ivan Miroshnikov failing the institute exams, starts working as a courier in publishing house of «Questions of Cognition» magazine. During his work he meets Katya. She is a student of Moscow University and her father is a professor of pedagogic. They fell in love with each other, Ivan grows up and takes life quite differently.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Курьер, Karen SHAKHNAZAROV, СПб: Ред Фиш, 2004, 2004
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2018
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2018
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2017
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2015
- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2014
- Festival de cinéma russe au Centre Wallonie Bruxelles de Kinshasa, Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 2012
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2012
- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2010
- Retrospective Russian cinema at the "Reflet Médicis", Paris (France), 2009
- Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2009
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2009
- FEMA / La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2000
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2000
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 1998
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1987
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Photos and videos
 
Film avec sous-titres français et anglais