Andrei KONCHALOVSKY Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ Andreï KONTCHALOVSKI   USSR, 1969, 111 mn  Colour, fiction

Nest of Gentlefolk ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Дворянское гнездо    Un nid de gentilshommes  Dvorianskoe gnezdo

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Plot synopsis

Made after I. S. Turgenev’s novel of the same name. A rich landowner Lavretsky returns to Russia from Paris, having divorced his faithless wife Varvara, with an aim to start agriculture business. Here he meets not very rich girl Liza. Lavretsky and Liza fall in love, but the girl’s mother wants to marry her to a rich influential official, and it is difficult for Lavretsky to obtain a divorce from his wife. The girl goes to a monastery, and her lover stays alone in his estate.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2013

- Festival Andrey Konchalovsky, Moscow (Russia), 2012

- Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds (United Kingdom), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011

- Semaine de cinéma russe à l'Institut français du Tchad, Ndjamena (Tchad), 2011

- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2010

- Festival Pau ville russe, Pau (France), 2009

- Retrospective Andrey Konchalovsky, Paris (France), 2009

- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2008

- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005

- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2005

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2002

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