Pavel LABAZOV
Павел ЛАБАЗОВ
Pavel LABAZOV
Russia, 2006, 70mn 
Colour, fiction
Volga-Volga
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Волга-Волга

 

 Volga-Volga

 Volga-Volga

 
Directed by : Pavel LABAZOV (Павел ЛАБАЗОВ)
Cinematography : Gennadi BELIAEV (Геннадий БЕЛЯЕВ)
Music : Eduard SIVKOV (Эдуард СИВКОВ)
Sound : Nikolay ZOLOTUKHIN (Николай ЗОЛОТУХИН)
Editing : Maksim TIMOFEYEV (Максим ТИМОФЕЕВ)
Produced by : Pavel LABAZOV (Павел ЛАБАЗОВ), Andrey SILVESTROV (Андрей СИЛЬВЕСТРОВ)
Production : Videodom (Видеодом) avec la participation du centre culturel Dom et Cine Fantom (При поддержке Культурного центра Дом и Сине Фантом)
 
Site : site officiel

Plot synopsis
Musical comedy.
The new heroine of film, Monroe (she is also Liubov Orlova and the post-girl Strelka), or, to be exact, her (speaking and singing) HEAD, has immersed herself into the filmís plot, its black-and-white proletarian values, its pseudoclassical cartoon style. Around this head, which is like a picture hung on a wall, spin meanings and contexts; the old logic breaks up and makes way for a new, jocular perspective that projects Putinís Russia. The white colonnades of the locks of the Moscow-Volga Canal, the steamship ìJoseph Stalinî, and even Leninís statue, become skeptical scenery, while the proud Soviet people who desperately travel to the distant and longed-for capital, to the all-union competition of amateur performances, resemble more and more the crowds of revolutionaries and ragamuffins, who may not even have an aim. But there is a song. And the words cannot be disentangled from the song.
World Premiere: Rotterdam IFF (programme "Cine Fantom Day"), 2006.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2006
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006