Viktor KOSSAKOVSKY
Виктор КОСАКОВСКИЙ
Viktor KOSSAKOVSKI
United Kingdom / Germany / Denmark / USA, 2018, 90mn 
documentary
Aquarela
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Акварель

 

 Aquarela, l'Odyssée de l'eau

 Akvarel

 
Directed by : Viktor KOSSAKOVSKY (Виктор КОСАКОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Viktor KOSSAKOVSKY (Виктор КОСАКОВСКИЙ)
Cinematography : Viktor KOSSAKOVSKY (Виктор КОСАКОВСКИЙ)
Editing : Viktor KOSSAKOVSKY (Виктор КОСАКОВСКИЙ)
Production : Aconite Productions; BFI Film Fund; Danish Documentary Production; Louverture Film; Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 2020-02-05, Site

Awards :
Best documentary Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2018

Plot synopsis
The hero of the film is water in its most amazing forms. "Seven years ago, I made a film that opened the Venice Film Festival: Vive les Antipodes. There is a passage on Baikal where a little girl says, "In the next life I would like to be water - pure like the water of Baikal." When I had the opportunity to make a film on water, I understood that I had to start with Baikal. I came, I installed my camera in the same place and I prepared to shoot. It was indeed magnificent. I have been around the world four times, I have seen everything, but nothing could be compared to Baikal. Ice in winter is more than a meter thick, but it is transparent - as if you were walking on glass. I wanted to film it, and suddenly in front of the camera a tragedy happened: a car with people on board sank under the ice."
A. Sokurov
https://fr.sputniknews.com/culture
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Film : Aquarela, Marielle, onirik.net, 2020
‘Aquarela’: Inside the Most Dangerous Documentary Ever Made, Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2019
Aquarela - L'Odyssée de l'eau. Documentaire de Viktor Kossakovsky (2019), senscritique.com, 2019
RUSSIA BEYOND : À ne pas manquer: les trois films qui représenteront la Russie aux Oscars 2020, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2019
Victor Kossakovsky: Aquarela (2018), James NORTON, Kinokultura, 2019
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2020-02-05
- Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey), 2019
- Sundance Film Festival, Park City (USA), 2019
- San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco (USA), 2019
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2018
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Message to Man : International Short, Documentary and Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg (Russia), 2018

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