Vladimir MIRZOEV Владимир МИРЗОЕВ Vladimir MIRZOEV   Russia, 2011, 128 mn  Colour, fiction

Boris Godunov ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Борис Годунов    Boris Godounov  Boris Godunov

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Plot synopsis

[...]Mirzoev’s film, [...] has brought the tragedy into a contemporary setting while retaining the original script. The film begins with scenes of modern details: political figures in business suits, Shuiskii talking in a Mercedes, Pushkin making an announcement on TV, and committee members meeting against the backdrop of glittering skyscrapers. Sometimes, though, the contemporary setting evokes anachronistic awkwardness, for example, an illiterate soldier reading text messages on an iphone. While such scenes produce discordant effects between the lines of the past and the modern setting, they also offer a new texture to the traditional text.[...]
Kiun Hwang, rusfilm.pitt.edu

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Vladimir Mirzoev: Boris Godunov (2011), Rad BORISLAVOV, kinokultura.com, 2013

Boris Godunov [Director Vladimir Mirzoev, 2011], Kiun HWANG, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2012

Camp Cinema : Russian Style, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2012

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Author Cinema Festival "Polnyy arthouse", Chelyabinsk (Russia), 2013

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2012

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

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2012

- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2012

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2011

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

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

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