Valery TODOROVSKY
Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ
Valeri TODOROVSKI
Russia, 2008, 136mn 
Colour, fiction
Stilyagi
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Стиляги

 

 Hipsters / Modefreak

 Les Zazous

Other titles : Буги на костях
 
Directed by : Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Yuri KOROTKOV (Юрий КОРОТКОВ)
 
Cast
Oxana AKINSHINA (Оксана АКИНЬШИНА) ...Polza
Konstantin BALAKIREV (Константин БАЛАКИРЕВ) ...Dryn
Yevgeniya BRIK (Евгения БРИК) ...Katia
Sergey GARMASH (Сергей ГАРМАШ) ...Le père de Mels
Maksim MATVEYEV (Максим МАТВЕЕВ) ...Fred
Ivan NIKOLAYEV (Иван НИКОЛАЕВ)
Irina ROZANOVA (Ирина РОЗАНОВА)
Anton SHAGIN (Антон ШАГИН) ...Mels
Yekaterina VILKOVA (Екатерина ВИЛКОВА) ...Betsy
Yevgeniya VODZINSKAYA (Евгения ВОДЗИНСКАЯ) ...member of the Komsomol
Igor VOYNAROVKY (Игорь ВОЙНАРОВСКИЙ) ...Bob
Oleg YANKOVSKY (Олег ЯНКОВСКИЙ) ...Le père de Fred
 
Cinematography : Roman VASIANOV (Роман ВАСЬЯНОВ)
Production design : Vladimir GUDILIN (Владимир ГУДИЛИН)
Sound : Sergey CHUPROV (Сергей ЧУПРОВ)
Companies : Krasnaya Strela
Film revenue in Russia : 16.8 million dollars
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Best feature film Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best Screenplay Yuri KOROTKOV , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sergey GARMASH , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Audience Award Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2010
Audience Award Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2010
Best Set Decoration Vladimir GUDILIN , Yuri FOMENKO , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2009
First prize Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2009
Best Set Decoration Vladimir GUDILIN , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2008

Plot synopsis
The film depicts the colorfully dressed and sexually liberated stilyagi facing off against their arch-foes -- the Komsomol, the youth wing of the Communist Party, whose activists regularly raid stilyagi concerts.
With echoes of West Side Story, the film focuses on the unlikely romance between a Komsomol activist named Mels and a sexy stilyagi girl who shows him the wonders of American jazz, the foxtrot and hairspray.
Mixed in throughout are splashy song-and-dance numbers, like one where Mels is expelled from the Komsomol by a throng of young Communists chanting a song reminiscent of Pink Floyd's protest anthem Another Brick in the Wall. (Source : http://www.expatica.com/be/news/local_news/Jazz_loving-hipsters-take-on-Communism-in-_anti_Soviet_-musical--_48529.html?ppager=0)
 

commentaries
'Stilyagi' [Les Zazous, 2008], le film musical qui donne envie de chanter en russe, musicalavenue.fr, 2021
Cette blogueuse expliquant sur YouTube les films soviétiques aux étrangers, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
Les 100 films les plus cultes de Russie et d'URSS [selon RUSSIA BEYOND], RUSSIA BEYOND, 2019
The Most Significant Russian Films of the Last Decade [2005-2016], Academic Studies Press, 2019
Pourquoi les zazous font leur retour en Russie [Les Zazous de Valery Todorovski], Maria KOUZMINA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2017
The Self and the Other in Recent Russian Cinema, Birgit BEUMERS, kinokultura.com, 2010
L’année de la crise : un regard sur le cinéma russe 2008-2009, Yelena KVASOVA-DUFFORT, kinoglaz.fr, 2009
STILYAGI (Hipsters-Les Zazous) Valery Todorovsky/Russie, Sarah BOUHALLIT, lesarcs-filmfest.blogspot.com, 2009
Valerii Todorovskii : Hipsters(Stiliagi, 2008), Volha ISAKOVA, kinokultura.com, 2009
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Scènes et Ciné - Programme Panorama - Cinématographies de Russie et d'Europe Centrale, Fos sur Mer (France), 2019
- Ciné-Club « Passy-Moscou, Regards sur le Cinéma Russe Contemporain », Paris (France), 2017
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2017
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2015
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2015
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2014
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2014
- Festival of Russian cinema in Nice, Nice (France), 2014
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2013
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2013
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2012
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2012
- "Go Russia". Focus on New Russian Cinema, Luxembourg (Luxembourg), 2011
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Seville European Film Festival : SEFF, Seville (Spain), 2011
- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2010
- Année croisée France-Russia, Different cities (France), 2010
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2010
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2010
- Moscow, St-Petersburg, two capitals, one country, Toulouse (France), 2010
- Rуtrospective Pavel Lungin at the Cinémathèque de Nice, Nice (France), 2010
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Semaine du cinéma russe au cinéma Mac Mahon : le classique et l'avant-garde, Paris (France), 2010
- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2010
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2010
- The Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin (Ireland), 2010
- Trieste Film Festival, Trieste (Italy), 2010
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2010
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2010
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2010
- Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon (USA), 2010
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2010
- Clevelant International Film Festival, Cleveland (USA), 2010
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2010
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2009
- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2009
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2009
- Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2009
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2009
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2009
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2009
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2009
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm (Sweden), 2009
- Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2009
- Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago (USA), 2009
- Anchorage International Film Festival, Anchorage (USA), 2009
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2008

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