Aleksey BALABANOV
Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ
Alekseï BALABANOV
Russia, 2010, 87mn 
Colour, fiction
Kochegar
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Кочегар

 

 The Stoker

 Chauffeur

 
Directed by : Aleksey BALABANOV (Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksey BALABANOV (Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ)
 
Cast
Yuri MATVEYEV (Юрий МАТВЕЕВ)
Aleksandr MOSIN (Александр МОСИН)
Mikhail SKRIABIN (Михаил СКРЯБИН) ...Major
Vyacheslav TELNOV (Вячеслав ТЕЛЬНОВ)
Aida TUMUTOVA (Аида ТУМУТОВА) ...Majors's daughter
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr SIMONOV (Александр СИМОНОВ)
Production design : Anastasia KARIMULINA (Анастасия КАРИМУЛИНА)
Music : Valery DIDULA (Валерий ДИДЮЛЯ)
Produced by : Sergey SELIANOV (Сергей СЕЛЬЯНОВ)
Companies : CTB
Film revenue in Russia : 0.184 million dollars
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media

Awards :
Press award Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
First prize Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2011
Special Jury prize "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2010
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2010
Best feature film International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best directing Aleksey BALABANOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best music Valery DIDULA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
Best Set Decoration Anastasia KARIMULINA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
The focus of his movie is on a retired major, a hero of the Soviet Union and an ethnic Yakut. He has to take work in a stokehold, and he spends his free time working on a story on his typewriter. Outside, it is the feverish 1990s, the era of tempestuous changes in Russian society. The ubiquitous presence of organized crime even extends to his workplace, which gangsters use to incinerate corpses. “This was a very important time for Russia, an eventful one during which a new systemwas emerging,” says Sergey Selyanov, the producer. “For a long time our society was frightened to discuss this period, but we are now able to think about it and perceive it without personal prejudices. Fromthe moviemaker’s perspective, it was like theWildWest, a source of moviemaking energy.”
 

commentaries
Aleksei Balabanov: Stoker (Kochegar, 2010), Nancy CONDEE, kinokultura.com, 2011
Последний фильм, Aleksey MEDVEDEV, seance.ru, 2011
В топку! - Кочегар, режиссер Алексей Балабанов, Georgi MKHEIDZE, Искусство кино, 9, 2010
Дядя кочегар, расскажи нам еще про плохих людей… [О фильме Кочегар], Vasili_3 STEPANOV, Аглая ЧЕЧОТ, Петр ЛЕЗНИКОВ, Ксения ДРУГОВЕЙКО, seance.ru, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Bradford International Film Festival, Bradford (United Kingdom), 2013
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2012
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2011
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2011
- Helsinki International Film Festival, Helsinki (Finland), 2011
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2011
- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2011
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2011
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2011
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2011
- Art Film Festival, Trencin (Slovakia), 2011
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2010
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2010

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