Director,
Writer,
Actress,
Producer
Born in 1960, USSR (Ukraine)
 
 
Liubov ARKUS
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Любовь Льво АРКУС
Lioubov ARKUS
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2025 - Parents Are Here (Родители тут рядом) [documentary, full length film]
2022 - Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem (Балабанов. Колокольня. Реквием) [documentary, 115 mn]
2021 - What Beat You Nothing (Кто тебя победил никто) [documentary, TV, 131 mn]
2012 - Anton's Right Here (Антон тут рядом) [documentary, 110 mn]
 
Writer
2022 - Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem (Балабанов. Колокольня. Реквием) from Liubov ARKUS [documentary, 115 mn]
2012 - Anton's Right Here (Антон тут рядом) from Liubov ARKUS [documentary, 110 mn]
 
Actress
2022 - Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem (Балабанов. Колокольня. Реквием) from Liubov ARKUS [documentary, 115 mn]
2021 - Rastorgouev (Расторгуев) from Yevgeniya OSTANINA [documentary, 127 mn]
2020 - Alexey Balabanov. Find Yours and Calm Down (Алексей Балабанов. Найти своих и успокоиться) from Lyudmila SNIGIREVA [documentary, 108 mn]
1988 - The fountain (Фонтан) from Yuri MAMIN [fiction, 104 mn]
 
Producer
2020 - Seize the moment (Лови момент) from Aleksey SIZOV [fiction, 6 mn]
 
Sites : IMDb, ru-Wikipedia

Author :

Awards :
Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem :
Best Non-Fiction Film, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2024
What Beat You Nothing :
Best documentary serial, National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2022
Anton's Right Here :
Best documentary, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2013
Best documentary, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2013
Best documentary, Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2013
Best First Documentary, Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2012
Special Prize, International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Novaya Gazeta Award, International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Best author documentary, National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Prize Miron CHERNEKO, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2012

Biography
She was born on September 20, 1960 in Lvov.
In 1984 she graduated from the screenwriting and film criticism department of VGIK (workshop of L. Zaitseva, A. Medvedev). She worked as a literary secretary to V. Shklovsky, an editor at the Lenfilm movie theater.
Creator (1989, jointly with A. Golutva) and editor-in-chief of the Seance magazine. Since 1993, he has been the founder and editor-in-chief of the Seans publishing house.
Author of the concept, compiler, author of articles in the seven-volume edition "The Newest History of Russian Cinema. 1986-2000" ("Seance", 2001-2004).
Published in the magazines "Cinema Art", "Seance", "Soviet Screen", "Spark"; in the newspapers "Izvestia"; "Vremya MN", etc.
 

Commentaries
- «Родители тут рядом». Картине Любови Аркус не выдали прокатное удостоверение. [L'autorisation de distribution a été refusée au film Les Parents sont tout près de Lioubov Arkus] , Larisa MALUKOVA, 2025, Novaya Gazeta, 15/10/2025
- Liubov’ Arkus: Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem (Balabanov. Kolokol’nia. Rekviem, 2022) Frederick H. WHITE, 2024, Kinokultura
- Balabanov in 2022: Considering the Legacy Anna NIEMAN, 2023, Kinokultura
- Опрос «Искусства Кино»: лучшие российские фильмы 2022 года [Les meilleurs films russes de 2022 selon «Isskustvo Kino» Сергей ДЁШИН, 2022, kinoart.ru
- Хроника объявленной смерти Фильм Балабанов. Колокольня. Реквием [Critique du film Balabanov. Le Clocher. Requiem, 2022, de Lioubov ARKUS] , Andrey PLAKHOV, 2022, kommersant.ru
- RUSSIA BEYOND : Sept films documentaires russes qui vous captiveront jusqu'au bout Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, 2020, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Документальное кино. Итоги года [2012] , Yekaterina VIZGALOVA, 2013, kino-teatr.ru
- Liubov’ Arkus: Anton's Right Here (Anton tut riadom, 2012) , Greg DOLGOPOLOV, 2013, kinokultura.com
- Un film pour parler d'autisme [A propos du film Anton est ici, tout près de Lioubov Arkus] Daria DONINA, 2012, larussiedaujourdhui.fr