Vadim ABDRASHITOV
Вадим АБДРАШИТОВ
Vadim ABDRACHITOV
Russia, 2003, 93mn 
Colour, fiction
Magnitnye buri
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Магнитные бури

 

 Magnetic Storms

 Tempêtes magnétiques

 
Directed by : Vadim ABDRASHITOV (Вадим АБДРАШИТОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr MINDADZE (Александр МИНДАДЗЕ)
 
Cast
Lyubava ARISTARKHOVA (Любава АРИСТАРХОВА) ...Natakha
Maksim AVERIN (Максим АВЕРИН) ...Valeri
Yelena FOMINA (Елена ФОМИНА)
Boris SHUVALOV (Борис ШУВАЛОВ) ...Poulia
Viktoria TOLSTOGANOVA (Виктория ТОЛСТОГАНОВА) ...Marina
 
Cinematography : Yuri SHAIGARDANOV (Юрий ШАЙГАРДАНОВ)
Production design : Vladimir ERMAKOV (Владимир ЕРМАКОВ)
Music : Viktor LEBEDEV (Виктор ЛЕБЕДЕВ)
Sound : Yevgeni POZDNYAKOV (Евгений ПОЗДНЯКОВ)
Produced by : Aleksandr POTYOMKIN (Александр ПОТЁМКИН)
Companies : Mosfilm, Arc-film avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture de la Fédération de Russie
 

Awards :
Best directing Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best directing Vadim ABDRASHITOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best Screenplay Aleksandr MINDADZE , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best directing "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best Screenplay Aleksandr MINDADZE , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2003
Special Jury prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003
Best Screenplay Aleksandr MINDADZE , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003
Prix de la meilleure réalisation au Festival Pacific Meridian de Vladivostok, 2003

Plot synopsis
"...The events are set in the late 1980s, during the period of factory strikes that were rooted in attempts to privatize state-owned enterprises. The factory stands divided between two bureaucrat-bosses who seemingly haggle over the ownership of the factory: part of the staff sides with Savchuk, the other with Markin. It transpires gradually that they have long struck a deal and use the factory workers for their own, common, political goals... "
Birgit Beumers http://www.kinokultura.com/reviews/R73magnetic.html
 

commentaries
Vadim Abdrashitov: Magnetic Storms (Magnitnye buri) (2003), Birgit BEUMERS, kinokultura.com, 2003
 
Vadim Abdrashitov: Magnetic Storms (Magnitnye buri) (2003), reviewed by Birgit Beumers ©2003 , KinoKultura

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2013
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Cinemania : World Film Panorama, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2008
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2004
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2003
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2003
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2003
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2003
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2003
- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2003

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