Irina VASILYEVA
Ирина ВАСИЛЬЕВА
Irina VASSILIEVA
Russia, 2017, 52mn 
documentary
The Success of a hopeless case
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Успех безнадежного дела

 

 Le Succès d'une cause sans espoir

 Uspekh beznadiozhnovo dela

 
Directed by : Irina VASILYEVA (Ирина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Writing credits : Irina VASILYEVA (Ирина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Cinematography : Irina URALSKAYA (Ирина УРАЛЬСКАЯ)
Music : Aleksandr GALICH (Александр ГАЛИЧ)
Produced by : Aleksandr RADOV (Александр РАДОВ)
Production : ООО «Студия «Фишка-фильм» / Studio “Fishka-film”
 

Plot synopsis
In the 1960–70s, Grigory Pomerants made the way from temptation of the dissident underground to a famous anti-Stalinist speech, which made him almost a prophet in the eyes of the intelligentsia then. He counted himself as a fellow traveler, but he never became a real dissident. He expressed the spirit of the movement like this: ‘I am convinced that the salvation of Russia (and of all mankind) is not in the crowd of people following the prophet, but in each person, in his inner development and in protecting his rights. The dissidents launched the beginning of this exit from impersonality... A person is above the class, the party, the state, the people, the dogmas of faith. Only God is above the person. But God is a person as well”.
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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Annual Independent Russian-American Documentary Film Festival in New York​ (Tribeca), New York (USA), 2019
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2017
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Annual Independent Russian-American Documentary Film Festival in New York​ (Tribeca), New York (USA), 2017