Kira MURATOVA
Кира МУРАТОВА
Kira MOURATOVA
Ukraina, 2009, 153mn 
Colour, fiction
Melody for the Barrel Organ
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Мелодия для шарманки

 

 Mélodie pour orgue de barbarie

 Melodiya dlya sharmanki

 
Directed by : Kira MURATOVA (Кира МУРАТОВА)
Writing credits : Kira MURATOVA (Кира МУРАТОВА), Vladimir ZUYEV (Владимир ЗУЕВ)
 
Cast
Natalia BUZKO (Наталья БУЗЬКО)
Jean DANIEL (Жан ДАНИЭЛЬ)
Georgi DELIEV (Георгий ДЕЛИЕВ)
Renata LITVINOVA (Рената ЛИТВИНОВА)
Nina RUSLANOVA (Нина РУСЛАНОВА)
Oleg TABAKOV (Олег ТАБАКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir PANKOV (Владимир ПАНКОВ)
Production design : Yevgeni GOLUBENKO (Евгений ГОЛУБЕНКО)
Music : Valentin SILVESTROV (Валентин СИЛЬВЕСТРОВ)
Produced by : Oleg KOKHAN (Олег КОХАН)
 

Awards :
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Renata LITVINOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
First prize Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2009

Plot synopsis
After their mother’s death her children – stepbrother and stepsister – have no choice but to go and find their fathers in the big city. On their way they meet many people of the most different kind – people that are kind or wicked, rich and poor, wise and idiot. But one thing stays the same as nobody really cares for them, because everybody’s got to deal with their own problems. And all the more – in the night on the eve of Christmas. Cold and magic Christmas night ends up with by no means fairytale final.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Kira Muratova : Melody for a Barrel Organ (Melodiia dlia sharmanki, 2009), Nancy CONDEE, kinokultura.com, 2009
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2013
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2012
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2011
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2011
- International Women's Film Festival, Créteil (France), 2010
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2010
- International Film Festival «2-in-1», Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2010
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2010
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2009
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2009
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2009
- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2009

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