Andrey STEMPKOVSKY
Андрей СТЕМПКОВСКИЙ
Andreï STEMPKOVSKI
Russia, 2010, 93mn 
Colour, fiction
Obratnoe dvizhenie
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Обратное движение

 

 Reverse Motion

 Contre-mouvement

 
Directed by : Andrey STEMPKOVSKY (Андрей СТЕМПКОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Givi SHAVGLIDZE (Гиви ШАВГУЛИДЗЕ), Andrey STEMPKOVSKY (Андрей СТЕМПКОВСКИЙ), Anush VARDANYAN (Ануш ВАРДАНЯН)
 
Cast
Vladislav ABASHIN (Владислав АБАШИН ) ...the son
Olga DEMIDOVA (Ольга ДЕМИДОВА) ...the mother
Nikita EMSHANOV (Никита ЕМШАНОВ) ...Yuri
Georgi GATSOEV (Георгий ГАЦОЕВ) ...the boy
Daria GRACHEVA (Дарья ГРАЧЕВА) ...Lena
Aleksandr PLAKSIN (Александр ПЛАКСИН)
 
Cinematography : Zaur BOLOTAEV (Заур БОЛОТАЕВ)
Production design : Sergey AVSTRIEVSKIKH (Сергей АВСТРИЕВСКИХ)
Music : Ilya BALABAN (Илья БАЛАБАН)
Sound : Stanislav MIKHEEV (Станислав МИХЕЕВ)
Produced by : Andrey BONDARENKO (Андрей БОНДАРЕНКО), Olga GUROVA (Ольга ГУРОВА), Mikhail KALATOZISHVILI (Михаил КАЛАТОЗИШВИЛИ), Vladislav ROZIN (Владислав РОЗИН), Andrey STEMPKOVSKY (Андрей СТЕМПКОВСКИЙ)
Companies : Fonds Mikhail Kalatozov
 

Awards :
First prize Angers Festival Premiers Plans, Angers (France), 2011
Best Screenplay Givi SHAVGLIDZE , Anush VARDANYAN , Andrey STEMPKOVSKY , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Special Mention Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010
Best first film World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010
Best Screenplay Givi SHAVGLIDZE , Anush VARDANYAN , Andrey STEMPKOVSKY , Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, Estoril (Portugal), 2010
Best Cinematography Zaur BOLOTAEV , Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, Estoril (Portugal), 2010
Best Screenplay Givi SHAVGLIDZE , Anush VARDANYAN , Andrey STEMPKOVSKY , Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, Estoril (Portugal), 2010
Best actress Olga DEMIDOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
existential drama.
a woman receives the news that her only son, who is doing his army service in a hot spot, has been missing in action. a fellow soldier and friend, who visits her shortly afterwards, tells her about his probable death. after a while the mother notices a homeless migrant boy with a crippled arm and takes him into the house. in a special way this act defines the fate of the son who has survived…
 

commentaries
Andrei Stempkovskii : Reverse Motion (Obratnoe dvizhenie, 2010), Sergey DOBRYNIN, kinokultura.com, 2011
Interview with Andrei Stempkovskii : The text is not important…, Interview, kinokultura.com, 2011
Опыт - Обратное движение, режиссер Андрей Стемпковский, Zara ABDULLAYEVA, Искусство кино, 8, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2014
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2011
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2011
- Angers Festival Premiers Plans, Angers (France), 2011
- Riga International Film Festival “Arsenals”, Riga (Latvia), 2011
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2011
- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2011
- International Arctic Film Festival "Polar Lights", Murmansk (Russia), 2011
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2011
- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2010
- Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, Estoril (Portugal), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival «2-in-1», Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2010
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2010
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2010
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2010

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