Vitali MANSKY
Виталий МАНСКИЙ
Vitali MANSKI
Russia / Czech Republic / Germania, 2013, 117mn 
Colour, documentary
Truba
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Труба

 

 Pipeline

 Le Gazoduc

 
Directed by : Vitali MANSKY (Виталий МАНСКИЙ)
Cinematography : Aleksandra IVANOVA (Александра ИВАНОВА)
Produced by : Natalia MANSKAYA (Наталья МАНСКАЯ)
Companies : Studio Vertov
 

Awards :
Best directing Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013

Plot synopsis
Director Vitaly Manskiy sets off on the trail of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline to find out what it’s like for ordinary people living in its vicinity. This visually refined road movie, eloquently illustrating the absurd banality of modern Russia, is also an unsettling portrait of a gas line on which most of Europe is reliant.
 

commentaries
Road-эпос, Yelena GRACHEVA, Алексей ВОСТРИКОВ, seance.ru, 2014
Film Review: ‘Pipeline’, Alissa SIMON, variety.cim, 2013
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Montreal International Documentary Festival : RIDM, Montreal (Canada), 2021
- Hot Docs. Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2014
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2014
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2013
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2013
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2013
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2013

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