Eldar RIAZANOV
Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ
Eldar RIAZANOV
Russia, 2006, 136mn 
Colour, fiction
Andersen. Zhizn bez liubvi
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Андерсен. Жизнь без любви

 

 Andersen. Life without Love

 Andersen. Une vie sans amour

 
Directed by : Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ)
Writing credits : Irakli KVIRIKADZE (Ираклий КВИРИКАДЗЕ), Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ)
 
Cast
Liya AKHEDZHAKOVA (Лия АХЕДЖАКОВА) ...Gadalka
Lyudmila ARININA (Людмила АРИНИНА) ...La grand-mère d'Andersen
Mariya ARONOVA (Мария АРОНОВА)
Alena BABENKO (Алена БАБЕНКО) ...Henrietta Woolf
Valery BARINOV (Валерий БАРИНОВ) ...Fabricant de cercueils
Fyodor CHEKHANKOV (Федор ЧЕХАНКОВ) ...Bournonville
Anna DANILOVA (Анна ДАНИЛОВА) ...Tkatchikha
Valery GARKALIN (Валерий ГАРКАЛИН) ...Le prince Kristian
Liliya GEYST (Лилия ГЕЙСТ) ...Lola, prostituée
Ivan KHARATYAN (Иван ХАРАТЬЯН)
Yevgeniya KRYUKOVA (Евгения КРЮКОВА) ...Jennie Lind
Irakli KVIRIKADZE (Ираклий КВИРИКАДЗЕ) ...Portier
Sergey MIGITSKO (Сергей МИГИЦКО)
Oxana MYSINA (Оксана МЫСИНА) ...Anne-marie, mère d'Andersen
Igor PISMENNYY (Игорь ПИСЬМЕННЫЙ) ...Sibonni
Stanislav RIADINSKI (Станислав РЯДИНСКИЙ) ...Andersen
Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ) ...Patron d'une fabrication de tombeaux
Natalia SHCHUKINA (Наталья ЩУКИНА) ...Mademoiselle Challe
Vladimir SIMONOV (Владимир СИМОНОВ) ...Ionas Kollin
Oleg TABAKOV (Олег ТАБАКОВ) ...Simon Meisling
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV (Вячеслав ТИХОНОВ)
Leonid TIMTSUNIK (Леонид ТИМЦУНИК) ...Lieutenant Gudberg, Oldenburgski
Galina TIUNINA (Галина ТЮНИНА) ...Karen, soeur d'Andersen
Andrey TOLUBEYEV (Андрей ТОЛУБЕЕВ) ...Peter Woolf
Yuri TSURILO (Юрий ЦУРИЛО) ...Torvaldsen
 
Cinematography : Vadim ALISOV (Вадим АЛИСОВ), Yevgeni GUSLINSKY (Евгений ГУСЛИНСКИЙ)
Production design : Lyudmila KUSAKOVA (Людмила КУСАКОВА)
Music : Aleksey RYBNIKOV (Алексей РЫБНИКОВ)
Sound : Yekaterina EVANS (Екатерина ЭВАНС)
Editing : Inesa BROZHOVSKAYA (Инесса БРОЖОВСКАЯ)
Produced by : Dmitry KORZH (Дмитрий КОРЖ)
Companies : Studio Loutch, Société Gulliver (Киностудия "Луч", Кинокомпания "Гулливер")
Film revenue in Russia : 0.152 million dollars
 
Site : www.andersenfilm.ru

Awards :
First prize Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2007
First prize Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
Best Set Decoration "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006

Plot synopsis
The film tells the story of the life and creative work of a conflicted genius - a happy, unlucky, ill-fated favorite of fortune. The story revolves around the relationship of Andersen and the two principle women in his life. It’s about his unrequited passionate love for the famous Swedish singer Jenni Lind, and his sentimental affection for Admiral Volf’s daughter Henrietta, who had been in love with him for many years.
The film presents a man who was unpretentious yet vain, kind yet stingy, generous yet petty, strange and yet naïve…
Source : www.intercinema.ru
 

commentaries
Èl'dar Riazanov : Andersen, Life without Love (Andersen: Zhizn' bez liubvi, 2006), Arlene FORMAN, kinokultura.com, 2007
Мчатся годы-непогоды, Eldar RIAZANOV, ЭКСМО, 2007
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2007
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006

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