Synopsis
The Mosfilm Studios were inaugurated in 1931 by Stalin. Five thousand people worked in the complex, which was the same size as the Kremilin, a genuine labyrinth city devoted to cinema and the glory of the proletariat. From Eisenstein to Mikhalkov, the cream of Soviet cinema passed through Mosfilm which, up until the perestroika, would oversse more than half of all national productions. In 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union spelt the end for the studios, which were divided up and privatized. What remains of slendors past is this shoulder camera operator, spinning on roller skates through the waltzing couples in War and Peace by Serguei Bondartchouk.
Credits
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Imagie Productions
- Co-production : Arkeion Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Party Film Sales
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Jean-François Ferrillon
- Screenwriters : Laurence Bertoia, Bernard Louargant
- Director of Photography : Iouri Oulanov
- Editor : Éric Bortolotti
- Sound Recordist : Stanislas Bodkine
- Sound Mixer : Cédric Denooz
- Narrator : Marina Vlady
- Participants : Naoum Kleiman, Karen Shakhnazarov, Vladimir Naoumov
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Cinema, History, Politics
- Production language : Russian
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- Runtime : 53 min
- Production formats : Beta SP
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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