Aleksey MIZGIRYOV
Алексей МИЗГИРЕВ
Alekseï MIZGUIRIOV
Russia, 2009, 105mn 
Colour, fiction
Buben, baraban
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Бубен, барабан

 

 Buben baraban

 Tambour battant / Bouben Baraban

 
Directed by : Aleksey MIZGIRYOV (Алексей МИЗГИРЕВ)
Writing credits : Aleksey MIZGIRYOV (Алексей МИЗГИРЕВ)
 
Cast
Dmitry KULICHKOV (Дмитрий КУЛИЧКОВ)
Liubomiras LAUCIAVICIUS (Любомирас ЛАУЦЯВИЧЮС)
Yelena LIADOVA (Елена ЛЯДОВА)
Natalia NEGODA (Наталья НЕГОДА) ...Katya
Oleg VASILKOV (Олег ВАСИЛЬКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vadim DEYEV (Вадим ДЕЕВ)
Production design : Denis SHIBANOV (Денис ШИБАНОВ)
Produced by : Ruben DISHDISHIAN (Рубен ДИШДИШЯН)
Companies : Central Partnership
Film revenue in Russia : 0.004 million dollars
 

Awards :
Best actress Natalia NEGODA , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Special Jury prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009
Special Jury prize Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2009
Best directing Aleksey MIZGIRYOV , Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2009
Best directing FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2009
Ecumenical Jury Prize FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2009
Best Screenplay Aleksey MIZGIRYOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2009
Best actress Natalia NEGODA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2009

Note :
In late 1990s Russia, plagued by the complicated transition from planned to market economy, people labor as best they can to improve their own beleaguered lives. Russian writer-director Alexei Mizgirev follows his debut Hard-Hearted with an emotionally complex sophomore effort addressing this dire situation and introduces Yekaterina Artemovna, a lonely, embittered librarian living in a remote mining settlement who struggles to balance ethics, love and the brutal facts of her daily survival. One day, a civic-minded man in a naval uniform appears and changes everything. The hopeless monotony of Yekaterina’s daily life abruptly ends, but sadly, not for long. Through the drama and cruelty his female protagonist suffers, Mizgirev gives a remarkable portrayal of the limits of human endurance in the face of despair, and provides a dramatic rendering of a Russia desperately seeking a more merciful future. A multiple winner at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival, including Best Director. (http://miami.bside.com/2010/films/bubenbaraban_miami2010)

Plot synopsis
The heroine is a lonely woman of forty-five, who runs a library, while the story is set in a small mining settlement. Once love enters her life, it seems to give a meaning to her continuing struggle with the grinding poverty, despair and emptiness that surround her. She inherits her father’s apartment, and perhaps now she will no longer have to steal books from the library and sell them in the railway carriages of the trains that stop at the local station.
But her lover leaves her for her best friend, she understands that the only thing she can do is revenge – a bitter feeling of the one who cherishes the few good things she had in her life.
 

commentaries
Signs of the Everyday in Post-Soviet Cinema, Liliia NEMCHENKO, kinokultura.com, 2011
Le cinéma russe, vingt-cinq ans déjà..., Marilyne FELLOUS, kinoglaz.fr, 2010
Aleksei Mizgirev : Buben, Baraban (2009), Olga SURKOVA, kinokultura.com, 2009
 
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940600.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
Review by Ol'ga Surkova on www.kultura.com

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- International Film Festival El Ojo Cojo, Madrid (Spain), 2012
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- Sofia International Film Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2010
- Semaine du cinéma russe au cinéma Mac Mahon : le classique et l'avant-garde, Paris (France), 2010
- Festival "Etonnants voyageurs" à Saint Malo, Saint Malo (France), 2010
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2010
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010
- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2010
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2010
- Miami International Film Festival : MIFF, Miami (USA), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (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
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2009
- Festival of New Russian Films, Vilnius (Lithuania), 2009
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2009
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2009
- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2009

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