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GARPASTUM

 

GARPASTUM

 

GARPASTUM

GARPASTUM
DIRECTOR: ALEKSEJ GERMAN JR.
RUSSIA 2005
118 MIN / 35MM, COLOR, OV w. engl. ST

Caligari: 09.04. / 8.00 pm
Alpha: 10.04. / 6.00 pm

DIRECTOR:
Aleksej German jr.

SCREENPLAY:
Oleg Antonov
Aleksandr Vajnstejn

CAMERA:
Oleg Lukichov

ART DIRECTOR:
Sergej Sokolov
Georgij Kropachev

EDITOR:
Ivan Lebedev

MUSIC:
Igor Vdovin

PRODUCER:
Aleksandr Vajnstejn

CAST:
Evgenij Pronin
Danila Kozlovskij
Dmitrij Vladimirov
Aleksandr Bykovskij
Chulpan Hamatova

PRODUCTION:
V.K- Kampanija, Moskau
Tel.: 007 - 495 / 200 63 90
e-mail: post@garpastum.ru

DISTRIBUTION:
Intercinema XXI Century, Moskau
Tel.: 007 - 495 / 255 90 52
Fax: 007 - 495 / 255 90 82
e-mail: post@intercin.ru

The year is 1914, and while Gavrilo Princip sets out for Sarajevo in order to carry out the assassination which will secure his place in history, the brothers Andrej and Nikolaj are obsessed with a new game brought to Czarist Russia by the English: football – or harpastum, as it was known in the ancient world. Andrej is a student, Nikolaj works in a pharmacy. Their father lost his sanity over his gambling addiction a long time ago, and is now cared for by his brother. The two young brothers have no time for their family or girls, soccer is all they think of. Andrej is having an affair with an older Serbian woman called Anitsa, who hosts a literary salon. She’s not the only one who calls him an egomaniac: His team-mates say the same. The brothers are determined to build their own football pitch on a meadow on the outskirts of the city. But for the time being they make do with streets and fields. Regardless of the weather, they play together with the obese Fatso and the diminutive Shoust against other young enthusiastic locals – for money, and ultimately with success. But when they finally save enough cash for the pitch of their dreams, gangsters brutally destroy their plans. Years later, at the end of World War I, they meet up again on their meadow – naturally with a football. Director Guerman, whose film POESLEDNIJ POEZD / THE LAST TRAIN ran in competition at goEast 2004, again demonstrates his restrained aestheticism. His sepia-toned portrait shows boys enjoying a youth free of responsibility or political viewpoints, blissfully unaware that Russia is on the brink of the earth-shaking changes.

 
           
  ALEKSEJ GERMAN JR.  

ALEKSEJ GERMAN JR.
Born on 04.09.1976 in Moscow, Russia.
The son of the famous Russian director Aleksej German grew up in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the Moscow Film Academy VGIK in 2002 and started to work for the Lenfilm studio. His first feature film, POSLEDNIJ POEZD, won several international awards and received a special mention of the Jury at goEast 2004, where the film was shown in competition. German jr’s. second feature film GARPASTUM was presented in official competition at Venice IFF 2005.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION):
1999 Bolsoe osennee pole / The Large Autumn Field (short film)
2001 Duracki / Fools (short film)
2003 Poslednij poezd / The Last Train
2005 Garpastum

   
         
         
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