Konstantin LOPUSHANSKY
Константин ЛОПУШАНСКИЙ
Konstantin LOPOUCHANSKI
Russia, 2006, 105mn 
Colour, fiction
Ugly Swans
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Гадкие лебеди

 

 Les Vilains petits canards

 Gadkie lebedi

 
Directed by : Konstantin LOPUSHANSKY (Константин ЛОПУШАНСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Konstantin LOPUSHANSKY (Константин ЛОПУШАНСКИЙ), Boris STRUGATSKY (Борис СТРУГАЦКИЙ), Arkadi STRUGATSKY (Аркадий СТРУГАЦКИЙ)
Based on the eponymous short story by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strougatsky
 
Cast
Grigori GLADY (Григорий ГЛАДИЙ) ...Victor Banev
Aleksey KORTNEV (Алексей КОРТНЕВ) ...Pavel
Leonid MOZGOVOY (Леонид МОЗГОВОЙ) ...Golemba
Laura PITSKHELAURY (Лаура ПИЦХЕЛАУРИ) ...Diana
Olga SAMOSHINA (Ольга САМОШИНА) ...Lioudmila
Rimma SARKISIANE (Римма САРКИСЯН) ...Ira, fille de Victor Banev
Igor SERGEEV (Игорь СЕРГЕЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Ladislas GRCHIN (Ладислас ГУРЧИН)
Production design : Viktor IVANOV (Виктор ИВАНОВ), Konstantin PAKHOTIN (Константин ПАХОТИН)
Music : Andrey SIGLE (Андрей СИГЛЕ)
Sound : Leonid GAVRICHENKO (Леонид ГАВРИЧЕНКО)
Production : Proline Film, Studio CDP
Release date in Russia : 2006
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

Awards :
First prize Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2007
Special Jury prize Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
Best music Andrey SIGLE , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
Best Set Decoration Konstantin PAKHOTIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006
Prix spécial du jury au Festival Litterature et cinéma (Gatchina), 2007

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico. 2007.
Sous-titres : RU EN FR ES IT DE

Plot synopsis
Philosophical Parable. Mystical Thriller.
A story about a ghost town with a boarding school for gifted children lies at the basis of the script for ìUgly Swansî. The young people who grow up there are frightfully strange, taught by creatures called ìmokretsyî ñ mutants of humans, the ìugly swansî of the title. In the city the climate changes without any obvious reason and reminds of the deluge. Infinite commissions, special services and agents investigate this anomaly. The filmís hero, the writer Victor Banev, is compelled to conduct his own investigation of the situation, because his daughter is among the children of the boarding school. He participates in the struggle not only because of the childrenís fate, but also because mankind will choose the form of the Future.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Commentaries
Cinema of the Strugatskys: a history of the Soviet sci-fi legends on screen, from Tarkovsky to Sokurov, Sam GOFF, klassiki.online, 2025
Вечная классика: знаменитые экранизации произведений братьев Стругацких [Classiques éternels : adaptations cinématographiques célèbres des œuvres des frères Strougatski], domkino.tv, 2024
Best Russian Horror Movies: From the Soviet Union to Today, Sam NEWMAN, creepycatalog.com, 2023
Все экранизации братьев Стругацких [Toutes les adaptations cinématographiques des frères Strougatski], dzen.ru, 2022
Русская симфония: киноповести, киносценарии, интервью, Konstantin LOPUSHANSKY, Алетейя, 2008
Konstantin Lopushanskii : The Ugly Swans (Gadkie lebedi, 2006), Olga SURKOVA, kinokultura.com, 2006
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Adaptations of Works by the Strugatsky Brothers, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Festival of Festivals, St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai (China), 2007
- Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2007
- FEMA / La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2007
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2007
- "White Square" cameramen prize, Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Festival Kinoblick, Stuttgart (Germany), 2006
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2006
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2006
- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2006

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