Sergey LOBAN
Сергей ЛОБАН
Sergueï LOBAN
2011, 207mn 
Colour, fiction
Shapito-shou
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Шапито-шоу

 

 Shapito show

 Shapito-show

Other titles : Chapiteau-show
 
Directed by : Sergey LOBAN (Сергей ЛОБАН)
Writing credits : Marina POTAPOVA (Марина ПОТАПОВА)
 
Cast
Vera STROKOVA (Вера СТРОКОВА) ...Vera
Aleksey PODOLSKY (Алексей ПОДОЛЬСКИЙ) ...Aleksey
Aleksey ZNAMENSKY (Алексей ЗНАМЕНСКИЙ) ...Lyosha
Pyotr MAMONOV (Пётр МАМОНОВ) ...father
Dmitry BOGDAN (Дмитрий БОГДАН)
Stepan DEVONIN (Степан ДЕВОНИН)
Sergey KUZMENKO (Сергей КУЗЬМЕНКО)
Aleksandr SHPAGIN (Александр ШПАГИН)
 
Cinematography : Ivan MAMONOV (Иван МАМОНОВ), Yevgeni TSVETKOV (Евгений ЦВЕТКОВ)
Production design : Alena KUDREVICH (Алена КУДРЕВИЧ)
Music : Jacques POLYAKOV (Жак ПОЛЯКОВ)
Produced by : Aleksey AGEYEV (Алексей АГЕЕВ), Yekaterina GERASICHEVA (Екатерина ГЕРАСИЧЕВА), Mikhail SINYOV (Михаил СИНЕВ)
Production : Organic Films
Film revenue in Russia : 0.394 million dollars
 
Sites : Page Allociné, page IMDb
Release date in France : 2014-07-16, Site

Awards :
Audience Award Le Festival international du Film de Pau, Pau (France), 2012
Best actress Vera STROKOVA , Le Festival international du Film de Pau, Pau (France), 2012
Special Jury prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
Special Prize International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2011
Prize Cine-Club Federation of Russia International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2011
First prize Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2011
Press award Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2011
Best Screenplay Marina POTAPOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2011

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Damned Distribution. 2014. Titre : Shapito Show

Plot synopsis
Chapiteau-show is a film dealing with how people’s relationship reflect on their social intercourse and bonding – telling how tragically everything tend to seem from within, and how comical it really looks from the outside. The protagonists of the four stories told in the movie are connected to each other to a greater or lesser extent – some of them are acquainted in real life, other tend to communicate in different networks. Each one of them is living through his own, private drama not noticing what’s happening to other people. Each one of them delivers his own accusatory speech not knowing that the words he’s pronouncing are not really his. Their dramas deal with different types of human relationships – love, friendship, respect or cooperation, but all of these stories are evolving simultaneously. And the tempest in the soul of one character will reflect with a tempest in the soul of another. The action takes place far away from Moscow – on a sea shore, against serene scenery and beautiful rugged mountains. In the moments of crisis characters find themselves on the stage of a mystery gilly theater where each of them can sing his “swansong”.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Shapito Show (2011), de Sergueï Loban, Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2020
Chapiteau-Show. [Шапито-шоу: «Любовь» и «Дружба»], Elise THORSEN, www.rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2013
Le blues de jeunes cinéastes russes, Adrien MAILLARD et Louise AUVITU, nouvelobs.com, 2012
Les 11 meilleurs films russes de 2011, Maria FADEEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2012
Sergei Loban: Chapiteau-Show (Shapito-Shou, 2011), Tatyana KROUGLOVA, kinokultura.com, 2012
Клятва Герострата. Шапито-шоу, режиссер Сергей Лобан, Anton DOLIN, Искусствокино, 9, 2011
 
Director's Statement :
All the characters in this film are beautiful losers. Their views on life are unique, unorthodox bordering on strange and irrational. Their naivety, childish inability to deal with the complexity of human relationships leads puts them into absurd situations. And of course they manage and win in the end. CHAPITEAU-SHOW is a film dealing with how people’s relationship reflect on their social intercourse and bonding – telling how tragically everything tend to seem from within, and how comical it really looks from the outside. The protagonists of the four stories told in the movie are connected to each other to a greater or lesser extent – some of them are acquainted in real life, other tend to communicate in different networks. Each one of them is living through his own, private drama not noticing what’s happening to other people. Each one of them delivers his own accusatory speech not knowing that the words he’s pronouncing are not really his. Their dramas deal with different types of human relationships – love, friendship, respect or co- operation, but all of these stories are evolving simultaneously. And the tempest in the soul of one character will reflect with a tempest in the soul of another. The action takes place far away from Moscow – on a sea shore, against serene scenery and beautiful rugged mountains. In the moments of crisis characters find themselves on the stage of a mystery gilly theater where each of them can sing his “swansong”.

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2022
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Ciné-Club « Passy-Moscou, Regards sur le Cinéma Russe Contemporain », Paris (France), 2017
- Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2015
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2015
- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2015
- Les rencontres des cinémas d'Europe, Aubenas (France), 2014
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2014-07-16
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2013
- Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2013
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2013
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2012
- Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil ), 2012
- Le Festival international du Film de Pau, Pau (France), 2012
- Munich International Film Festival, Munich (Germany), 2012
- Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro (Italy), 2012
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2012
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2012
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2012
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 2012
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2012
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2012
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2011

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