Lenfilm

The Lenfilm film studio is located in St. Petersburg , on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt in building 10 , on the Petrograd side .

On the territory of 4 hectares in 10 buildings (40 thousand sq. M.) 4 active pavilions are located. Workshops of decorative and technical constructions, preparation for filming, editing, filming equipment, lighting and sound engineering, a studio for plastic makeup, a repository of costumes and props. The collection of historical props has 130 thousand storage units. There are historical cars. ^{[ significance of fact? ]}

The roots of Lenfilm go back to the Military Cinematography Department of the Skobelev Committee , established in March 1914. ^{[4] [5]}

There was also a cinema hall, in which the Commune cinema was subsequently opened. In 1915, the Film Department moved to house 8 on Nikolaevskaya Street (now Marata) . It was the first state-owned film factory to film chronicles and feature films that the Skobelevsky Committee released for rent. The military-cinematographic department was headed by Headquarters Captain Yakov Pavlovich Levoshko. One of the first cinematographic departments filmed the documentary "Gymnastics on machines at the Pavlovsk Military School on July 5th day 1913." Young cadets in gymnasts performed sports exercises. ^[6]

After its nationalization in March 1918, on April 30, the Petrograd Film Committee was established, headed by Dmitry Leshchenko. The Petrograd Cinema Committee of the Northern Communities, created on the basis of the film department of the Skobelev Committee, was initially located in the premises of the People's Commissariat of Education, and then moved to 30 Sergievskaya Street . Here, in the winter garden of Prince Elim Pavlovich Demidov-San Donato mansion, converted into an atelier, was removed the first Soviet film " Seal ", staged by Alexander Panteleev, Nikolai Pashkovsky and Anatoly Dolinov. ^[6]

In addition to movable and immovable property, the Petrograd Film Committee has become the successor to the equipment and “human resources” of the cinema department. Operators, directors, and technical personnel also switched to work at Kinosev. The film studio of the Skobelevsky Committee, its film laboratory and the rental office in Petrograd, were turned into the production, technical and operational base of the Petrograd Film Committee. ^[6]

In addition, the Petrograd Film Committee nationalized the Boris Glagolin Pavilion, the Kinodelo studio, as well as the Biofilm film laboratory. Then, in 1918, the Petrograd Film Committee requisitioned 68 city cinemas. And a year later, in 1918, Boltyansky became a member of the College and the head of the entire film production of the Petrograd Film Committee, established on April 30, 1918. ^[6]

In 1920, the Aquarium and the Aquarium Theater were occupied by the Petrograd Regional Film Department, which later changed its name several times due to political and economic circumstances:

• 1922-1925 - Factory "Sevzapkino" (in the building on 80 Nevsky , in the courtyard of which was the cinema " Parisian ") ^[7]
• 1923-1925 - Atelier "Cinema North"
• 1924-1926 - Leningrad factory "Goskino"
• 1925-1926 - Factory "Leningradkino"
• 1926-1930 - Leningrad factory "Sovkino"
• 1930-1932 - Leningrad factory "Soyuzkino"
• 1932-1933 - Leningrad factory "Rosfilm"
• 1933-1934 - Leningrad factory "Soyuzfilm"
• 1934-1935 - Leningrad factory "Lenfilm"
• 1935-1936 - Leningrad Order of Lenin film factory "Lenfilm"
• 1936-1976 - Leningrad Order of Lenin film studio "Lenfilm"
• 1976-1993 - Leningrad Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor Film Studio "Lenfilm"
• 1994-1996 - St. Petersburg Film Studio Lenfilm
• 1996—2003 - Saint-Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise “Lenfilm Film Studio”
• 2003—2004 - Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Creative Production Association" Lenfilm Film Studio "" "
• since 2004 - Open Joint-Stock Company Film Studio Lenfilm

The name and brand "Lenfilm" exist since 1934, when the film " Chapaev " was released.

From 1924 to 1926, the Factory of an Eccentric Actor ( FEX ) worked at the Sevzapkino Film Factory - a creative association, theatrical and film workshop. The Youth Workshop was created by Grigory Mikhailovich Kozintsev and Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg in 1921. Here they taught the skill of young actors and staged performances. The school of excellence passed many famous film figures: Sergey Gerasimov , Yanina Zheimo , Oleg Zhakov , Alexei Kapler and others.

Over the entire history of the Lenfilm studio, more than 1,500 feature films have been shot , including Chapaev , William Shakespeare's famous adaptations - Twelfth Night (The First Soviet adaptation of William Shakespeare ) , Hamlet , King Lear and the legendary Cinderella ”,“ Wedding in the Robin ”,“ The Lady with the Dog ”,“ The Beginning ”,“ In Love at His Own Will ”,“ Features of the National Hunt ”.

Lenfilm continued to operate even during the years of World War II. In the summer of the 41st, filmmakers worked on military movie compilations. ^[eight]

On August 27, 1941, it was decided to evacuate Lenfilm in Alma-Ata . The city was not chosen by chance - Leningraders have been collaborating with Kazakh filmmakers for more than a year. The first feature film based on Kazakhstani material was shot in 1928 at the Sovkino film studio based on Dmitry Furmanov ’s novel "Mutiny" (directed by S. A. Timoshenko). In 1938, the first Kazakh feature film called Amangeldy was shot at Lenfilm. ^[9]

On November 15, 1941, the main employees of Lenfilm were evacuated to Kazakhstan , where, together with their colleagues from Mosfilm , they became part of the CSC - the Central United Film Studio. Despite the merger, films under the legendary Lenfilm brand continued to be released, and Leningrad filmmakers themselves called themselves Lenfilm. The Lenfilm operators conducted documentary filming on the fronts and in besieged Leningrad ^[10] .

The Central United Film Studio (CSC) worked in Alma-Ata until 1944 and produced 80% of all domestic feature films during the war years. In Alma-Ata, the films “ Air Carrier ”, “ Actress ”, “ Heavenly Slow-Moving ” appeared, which soon entered the studio’s “golden fund”. On January 25, 1944, the Alma-Ata Film Studio was renamed the Alma-Ata Film Studio of feature and documentary films. In 1945, after the re-evacuation of Mosfilm and Lenfilm, the Alma-Ata film studio of feature and documentary films began to work independently.

On September 11, 2012, an open public discussion of the concepts of development of the Lenfilm film studio took place, organized at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation , with the participation of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation , at which two concepts were presented. The film studio development model, voiced by the chairman of the board of directors of Lenfilm Eduard Pichugin and director Sergey Snezhkin , was finally approved ^[11] .

On October 12, 2012, the Federal Property Management Agency agreed with the proposals of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation regarding the composition of the management of the Lenfilm film studio. The first deputy head of the department, Dmitry Pristanskov, said that Fedor Bondarchuk was approved as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lenfilm Film Studio. The updated composition of the board of directors includes Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Ivan Demidov, adviser to the minister Andrei Aristarkhov, as well as Alexander Sokurov , Sergey Selyanov and Alexei German Jr. Dmitry Pristanskov represents the Federal Property Management Agency on the Board of Directors of Lenfilm Film Studio OJSC. The concept of the development of the film studio, supported at public hearings, involved the modernization of production facilities of the studio ^[12] . In the same year, Svetlana Karmalita became the editor-in-chief of the film studio ^[13] .

A few months after the hearing, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky announced an important decision made by Vladimir Putin : the state will act as the guarantor of the loan, which is necessary for the reconstruction of Lenfilm. Obtaining a loan of 1.5 billion rubles was provided for by the Lenfilm development concept drawn up by Eduard Pichugin and adopted at a public hearing ^[14] .

In June 2013, as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum , VTB Bank signed an agreement with Lenfilm OJSC on opening a credit line in the amount of 1.53 billion rubles for 10 years. The document was signed by Yury Solovyov, First Deputy President and Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank, and Eduard Pichugin, Director General of Lenfilm OJSC. ^[15]

Since 1966, the film studio began to release its films with a new logo - “The Bronze Horseman ”, the inscription “Lenfilm” and diverging projection beams.

In the mid-1950s, newspapers several times announced a competition for the best logo for the Lenfilm film studio. Before that, at the beginning of all the pictures, the caption usually appeared: Film factory, Lenfilm film factory. In the 1960s, the Lenfilm screensaver appeared with the letter “F” in the form of a film.

In the mid-1960s, a competition was announced among cinema professionals in the Kadr newspaper . Many proposals were received : Lenin in an armored car , Peter and Paul Cathedral and many others. As a result of the competition, which was held in three stages, the project of the artist of the Lenfilm film studio Marina Bologovsky won. Together with the combined shooting operator Edgar Shtyrtskober she began to create a screen saver ^[16] .

First, the sculpture "The Bronze Horseman" by Etienne Falcone was shot by Edgar Shtyrtskober. Shtyrtskober’s task was to find the right angle, and after a long search, he did it. Further, the future logo was processed by Bologovskaya. Then there were no computers - everything was retouched and tinted by hand. Then, already at the multi-station , the method of frame-by-frame shooting, spreading the rays, shot frame by frame and, as a result, a smooth divergence of the spotlights light rays turned out ^[16]

- Alexander Pozdnyakov, film historian

For the first time, a new screen brand of the studio appeared in the credits of the film “ In the City of S. ” by Joseph Heifitz . In the 1990s, the logo was re-shot. The basis was a smaller sculpture of The Bronze Horseman, which stood in the office of the director of Lenfilm, film director Viktor Sergeyev . An updated logo appeared in the credits of his film " Genius " ^[16] .

In 2015, the Lenfilm logo and screensaver underwent a small rebranding . The screensaver is made in 3D. For this, the image of the Bronze Horseman was modeled anew by scanning an absolutely accurately reproduced model of the Bronze Horseman provided by the Museum of Urban Sculpture of St. Petersburg ^[17] . Layout scanning took more than 8 hours. The new Lenfilm screensaver faces the beginning of the films “ Divorce of Own Will ” directed by Ilya Severov and Contribution directed by Sergei Snezhkin .

• 1934 - Chapaev , dir. Brothers Vasiliev
  • 1937 - Grand Prix at the Paris World Exhibition
  • 1946 - Bronze medal at the VII IFF in Venice
  • 1941 - Stalin Prize
• 1960 - “The Lady with the Dog, ” dir. Joseph Heifitz
  • 1960 - Honorary Diploma at the IFF Best Films in London
  • 1960 - Prize for Humanism at the 13th IFF in Cannes
• 1961 - The Striped Flight , dir. Vladimir Fetin
  • 1973 - “Silver Prize” IFF children's films in Calcutta
• 1961 - Amphibian Man , dir. Gennady Kazan , Vladimir Chebotaryov
  • 1963 - Second prize "Silver spaceship" at the I IFF sci-fi film in Trieste
• 1964 - Hamlet , dir. Grigory Kozintsev
  • 1964 - Special Prize and Honorary Diploma of the Venice International Film Festival Jury, winner of numerous awards
• 1966 - "The Head of Chukotka ", dir. Vitaly Melnikov
  • 1968 - Prize of the Komsomol Central Committee "Scarlet Carnation" for the best film at the All-Union week of children's film in Moscow
• 1976 - “ Twenty Days Without War, ” dir. Alexey German
  • 1977 - Annual Award to them. Georges Sadoule in France
• 1976 - The Blue Bird , dir. George Cukor
  • 1976 - Honorary diploma at the XI IFF children's and youth films in Tehran
• 1979 - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson , dir. Igor Maslennikov
  • 1979 - Special Prize at the IFF in Chianciano Terme
• 1990 - Freeze, Die, Sunday , dir. Vitaly Kanevsky
  • 1990 - Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Prize for Best Debut (1990)
• 1990 - “ Comrade Chkalov ’s Crossing the North Pole, ” dir. Maxim Pezhemsky
  • 1991 - Prize for the best short film at the IFF Young Cinema in Turin
• 1990 - Satan , dir. Victor Aristov
  • 1991 - Silver Bear Prize at the IFF in Berlin
• 1991 - " Genius ", dir. Victor Sergeev
  • 1992 - Special Jury Prize for the best screenplay at the Kinotavr Film Festival: “Cinema for All” (Sochi — 92)
  • 1992 - Yevgeny Yeney Prize for the best work by an artist ( Yevgeny Gukov ) Lenfilm Professional Award Competition (St. Petersburg — 92)
• 1995 - " Features of the National Hunt ", dir. Alexander Rogozhkin
  • 1995 - Grand Prix at the Golden Ostap Film Festival
  • 1995 - Nika Award for Best Feature Film and Other Awards

• from 10.15.2012 Pichugin Eduard Anatolyevich , General Director of Lenfilm
• 2011—2012 Shaydakov Vladimir Anatolyevich, General Director of Lenfilm
• 2007—2011 Telnov Vyacheslav Nikolaevich, Director of Lenfilm ^[20]
• 2004-2007 Zertsalov Andrey Borisovich, Director of Lenfilm
• 1997-2002 Sergeyev Sergeyev, Director of Lenfilm
• 1987-1996 Golutva Alexander Alekseevich, Director of Lenfilm ^[21]
• 1985—1987 Khokhlov Yuri Ivanovich, Director of Lenfilm
• 1981-1985 Aksyonov Vitaliy Evgenievich , Director of Lenfilm
• 1978-1981 Provotorov Vitaly Petrovich, Director of Lenfilm
• 1972-1978 Blinov Viktor Viktorovich, Director of Lenfilm
• 1961-1972 Kiselev Ilya Nikolaevich, Director of Lenfilm
• 1957-1960 Nikolaev Georgy Nikolaevich, Director of Lenfilm
• 1955—1957 Vasiliev Sergey Dmitrievich , Director of Lenfilm
• 1939-1955 Glotov, Ivan Andreevich , Director of Lenfilm
• 1938-1940 Lotoshev Nikolay Mironovich, Director
• Slivkin Albert Moiseevich, Director of Lensovkino
• 1928-1939 Bykov Pavel Mikhailovich , Director of the Sovkino film factory
• Grinfeld Natan Yakovlevich , director of the Sovkino factory (1927-1928), director of the Soyuzkino film factory (1931-1933)
• 1924-1925 Frolov-Bentysh N. I. Director of Sevzapkino
• 1924 - Y. I. Kozlov, Acting Director of Sevzapkino
• 1923-1924 Efremov Mikhail F., Director of Sevzapkino
• Glebov N.N., Director of the Petrograd Regional Film and Film Department (POFKO)
• 1918-1923 Leshchenko Dmitry Ilyich, Chairman of the Petrograd Film Committee, Director of Sevzapkino 06/01/1922
• 1917-1918 Dementiev V., Second Lieutenant, managing director of the cinema department of the Skobelev Committee
• 1914-1917 Levoshko Yakov Pavlovich, Headquarters Captain, Head of the Military Cinematography Department of the Skobelevsky Committee

The gross revenue of Lenfilm Film Studio OJSC for 2013 amounted to 57 million rubles, for 2014 - 89.077 million rubles.

The revenue of Lenfilm for 2015 is 199 million rubles. ^[22]

• Order of Lenin (1935)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1976)

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• Официальный сайт Ленфильма
• Ленфильм (СССР) (англ.) на сайте Internet Movie Database
• Ленфильм (Россия) (англ.) на сайте Internet Movie Database
• Видеоканал Ленфильм на YouTube
• Первый киносеанс в Петербурге. Начало производства кинофильмов
• От «Чапаева» до «Довлатова»: 100 лет «Ленфильму» // Газета.Ru , 30.04.2018