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SSSR-ROSSIJA-TRANSIT / THE USSR-RUSSIA-TRANSIT

 

SSSR-ROSSIJA-TRANSIT / THE USSR-RUSSIA-TRANSIT

SSSR-ROSSIJA-TRANSIT / THE USSR-RUSSIA-TRANSIT
DIRECTOR: ANDREJ TITOV
RUSSIA 2005
52 MIN / BETA SP, COLOR, OV w. engl. ST

Caligari: 07.04. / 3.00 pm
Bellevue-Saal: 08.04. / 8.00 pm

DIRECTOR:
Andrej Titov

SCREENPLAY:
Andrej Titov

CAMERA:
Evgenij Cigel

EDITOR:
Arsenij Guscin

MUSIC:
Sergej Sedelnikov

PRODUCER:
Irina Snezinskaja

PRODUCTION:
Snega Film Compani, Ekaterinburg

DISTRIBUTION:
Snega Film Compani, Ekaterinburg
Tel.: 007 - 343 / 261 39 12
Fax: 007 - 343 / 261 39 12
e-mail: snega@sky.ru

The three men presented by Andrej Titov demonstrate three different ways of dealing with lost identity in times of change and of adjusting to the new situation. The most successful in this respect is Oleg Konovalov, whose thriving business activities allow him to concentrate on his passion for collecting. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev stare forth in a dignified manner from a series of identical portraits hanging in the businessman’s house, office and garage, while other insignia of the bygone system pile up in every corner. Konovalov finds life difficult to bear in a country whose former power is so diminished. When his collection is presented at an exhibition, the only visitors are war veterans and elderly women. Together they break into song: ‘Lenin, lead us into a happy future.’
Michail Rvacjov, the owner of a country estate, is pleased to have a rural retreat and the chance to pursue his own personal visions. He plans to deploy state-of-the-art technology on his land, and to build houses for his employees. Even after a fire destroys his barn and along with it the entire potato harvest, he sticks by his motto that life must go on regardless. Ultimately his mountain of debts leads to the loss of all his property; his dream of building a church with seven golden domes on the next hill will never come true.
The unemployed Viktor Bochkarev lives from hand to mouth, and scrapes an income from repairing TV sets, radios and tractors. When his wife leaves him, saying she’s had enough of his lyrical outpourings, he takes up contact with outer space. Although he labours under the burden of responsibility that comes with his new mission as protector of planet earth, he is at least kept busy – sending out signals at night, for instance, or presenting page-long notes of his observations to the city authorities.

 
           
  ANDREJ TITOV  

ANDREJ TITOV
Born on 10.12.1974 in Kamensk-Uralskij, Russian Federation.
In 1997 he graduated in journalism from the Ural state university. Since 1995 he works for broadcasting companies in Ekaterinburg as author of information and entertainment programs. Andrej Titov’s television works won prizes at many Russian festivals. SSSR-ROSSIJA-TRANSIT is his director’s debut. The film was awarded as „Best full length film“ at Festival Ekaterinburg.

FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR:
2005 SSSR-Rossija-Transit / The USSR-Russia-Transit

   
         
         
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