Vitali MELNIKOV Виталий МЕЛЬНИКОВ Vitali MELNIKOV   Russia, 2007, 122 mn  Colour, fiction

Agitbrigada 'Beat the Enemy' ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Агитбригада 'Бей врага!'    Brigade 'Tue l'ennemi'  Agitbrigada 'Bey vraga!'

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Plot synopsis

Somewhere people are fighting a horrible war and here in a far-away Siberian village agitation group “Beat the Enemy!”, assembled in a hurry, must raise the patriotic spirit of the local residents. A militiaman Nikonor is responsible for the ideology, a Leningrad singer Vera plays the accordion and sings imitating Lyubov Orlova, while a Moscow painter Vadim draws caricatures of fascists. At a different time and in a different place these people would have never been together.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Vitalii Mel'nikov : Agitation Brigade “Beat the Enemy” (Agit-brigada “Bei vraga”, 2007), Frederick CORNEY, kinokultura.com, 2008

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Festival "Soirées du Cinéma Russe" à Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2010

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2009

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2008

- Munich International Film Festival, Munich (Germany), 2008

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2008

- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2008

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2007

- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2007

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2007

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2007

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2007

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