Viktor SHAMIROV Виктор ШАМИРОВ Viktor CHAMIROV   Russia, 2011, 93 mn  Colour, fiction

The Practice of Beauty ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Упражнения в прекрасном    La Pratique de la perfection  Uprazhneniya v prekrasnom

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Plot synopsis

There is no theatre-goer who would refuse to go backstage. Rehearsals and talks in the wings, parties and intrigues, flirts and tears, success and failure… Viktor Shamirov’s comedy is about that. Ironically and skilfully the film tells about the life of a touring company – that life which is “hard and unsightly”, mysterious and attractive, ridiculous and tragic. A small group of Moscow actors goes on tour to several large Russian cities. The circumstances and motifs of the heroes are largely borrowed from real events which happened in the lives of the authors.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Viktor Shamirov: Exercises in Beauty (Uprazhneniia v prekrasnom, 2011), Andrei ROGATCHEVSKI, kinokultura.com, 2012

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2012

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2012

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2011

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2011

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2011

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011

- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2011

- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011

- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2011

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