“Born in the USSR” ( born Age 7 in the USSR, 14 Up Born in the USSR, Born in the USSR: 21 Up, Born in the USSR: 28 Up ) - an English documentary series by Sergey Miroshnichenko .
| Born in the USSR | |
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| Age 7 in the USSR | |
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| Genre | documentary series |
| Producer | Sergey Miroshnichenko |
| Producer | Steve Lawrence |
| Operator | Vyacheslav Sachkov |
| Composer | Ilya Demutsky |
| Film company | State Radio and Television, Granada Television , Sovteleexport |
| A country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | Russian , English |
| Year | 1991, 1998, 2005, 2012 |
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Content
- 1 Creation
- 2 movies
- 3 Participation
- 4 Participants (in alphabetical order)
- 5 Awards and nominations
- 6 See also
- 7 notes
- 8 References
Creation
Following the tradition of the British documentary series “ Up ”, this series tells about 20 [1] heroes (some refused to star in some years) who were born in 1983 in the Soviet Union , inviting them to shoot every seven years to trace their life against the backdrop of social and political change.
For post-Soviet countries, the project is unique, but has many foreign counterparts.
Each film shows the plots of past films. About 600 hours of material were shot about each of the characters, of which 11-12 minutes are included in the film. The British and Russian editions are published in the respective languages. In Soviet times, the series was a joint project of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and the Granada TV company (Great Britain), nowadays Russia, Great Britain and the French-German ART channel [1] .
The music for the series was written by Russian composer and conductor Ilya Demutsky . Also in the films are songs “ Chizh & Co ” - a phantom , “ Disco Crash ” - move, move , Enya , Britney Spears , etc.
In the British version of the first film “Born in the USSR: Seven Years”, the voiceover was voiced by the host of the Russian BBC service Seva Novgorodtsev .
The version of the director Born in the USSR: 21 Up, with a total duration of three hours, was shown on the Rossiya channel in June 2007 and consists of two parts: Mixing Languages and Mountain Megiddo. This longer and full version includes all children from previous films, not only those shown in the English version. However, due to an agreement with the distributor, this version cannot be shown outside the former Soviet Union. A similar version was shown to a select audience during the visit of Sergei Miroshnichenko to the United States in April 2007.
The team, which together with Miroshnichenko worked on the creation of the fourth part “Born in the USSR. 28 years old, young. In 2011, Miroshnichenko said: “The guys with whom we made the film are on average 28 years old. There is someone to hand over this project because it will be shot before the heroes of the film reach 70 years old. This is what Andrei Tarkovsky dreamed of - to show human life along its entire length. ” [2] Premiere of the fourth part “Born in the USSR. Continuation ”, where the 28-year-old heroes of the project are shown, took place on September 1 and 2, 2012 on the TV channel“ Russia 1 ”at 22:40. [3] The director, film crew and heroes of the film - Marina, Dima, Anton and Sasha participated in the talk show "Watching ... Discussing ..." on the TV channel "Culture", filming - September 3 [4] , broadcast - September 15, 2012 [5 ] .
In September 2018, some fragments of the fifth film were shown for the first time at the “Let's Live!” Festival [6] . At the end of October 2018, the director announced that his shooting was ongoing [7] .
Movies
| Premiere | Title | Duration | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/28/1990 | "Born in the USSR. Seven Years "(Age 7 in the USSR) | 68 minutes / 01:08 | |
| 07/29/1998 | "Born in the USSR. Fourteen Years "(14 Up Born in the USSR) | 89 minutes / 01:29 | |
| 11/29/2005 | Born in the USSR: 21 Years (Born in the USSR: 21 Up) | 176 minutes / 02:56 | the film is divided into two parts: “Mixing Languages” and “Mount Megiddo” |
| 09/01/2012 | “Born in the USSR: 28 years” (Born in the USSR: 28 Up) | 210 minutes / 03:30 | the film is divided into two parts: “Children of Change” and “Incarnation” |
| 2019? | “Born in the USSR: 35 years” (Born in the USSR: 35 Up) | the film is in production |
Participation
| Age (Year) | 7 (1991) | fourteen (1998) | 21 (2005) | 28 (2012) | 35 (2019) | |
| one | Alyona | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Diamond | |||||
| 3 | Algis | |||||
| four | Andrei | |||||
| 5 | Anton | |||||
| 6 | Asya | |||||
| 7 | Denis + | |||||
| 8 | + Stas | |||||
| 9 | Dima | |||||
| 10 | Jeanne + | |||||
| eleven | + Lenya | |||||
| 12 | Katya | |||||
| 13 | Lado | |||||
| fourteen | Marina | |||||
| fifteen | Nastya | |||||
| 16 | Pavlik | |||||
| 17 | Rita | |||||
| eighteen | Sasha | |||||
| 19 | Tanya + | |||||
| twenty | + Ira | |||||
Participants (in alphabetical order)
| Alyona | Born in the city of Rustavi , Georgian SSR, studied at a local Russian school, she is the only child with a single mother, lived in a dormitory. At 21, she lived in Rustavi, married Georgian Gelu, whom she had known since school, a year before filming at 21, their daughter Lisa died of a birth defect, she was only 10 months old. By the age of 28, they tried to move to Russia, but Alena refused to grant Russian citizenship, after which the couple returned to Rustavi. By the age of 28, the couple have a son, they are waiting for the birth of their daughter. |
| Diamond | Born in the Kyrgyz SSR , in the city of Frunze (now Bishkek), grew up in a poor large family, lived in a hostel. At the age of 14 he was already making money. At 18, he opened his own company. By the age of 21, he married, his son was born. By the age of 28, he moved to Novosibirsk , where he works in the market, and a second child was born in the family. |
| Algis | Born in Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR. He studied at school, was engaged in martial arts, spoke Lithuanian (at 28 years old - and in Russian). By the age of 21, he lived with a girl with whom he was familiar with 14 years old, studied at the university. At 28 he created a family all with the same girl, a daughter was born. |
| Andrei | His mother and father died in his family, his grandmother's pension was not enough and he was sent to an orphanage in Irkutsk . After the release of the first film, he was adopted by an American family, he moved to the USA , but then his adoptive mother refused him. With the help of a film crew, he was adopted by another family, and he settled in Florida . At 21, he began to live separately and rented a small house, intending to create his own business. At 28, she lives with foster parents in Florida again. He refused to star in the film, leaving an appeal in which he said that he needed to stop and understand what was happening in life. The director explained the rejection of the complex psychological state and the advice of the parents [8] . |
| Anton | Born and lives in Moscow, in the House on the Embankment , his grandfather was the editor of the newspaper Pravda . At 21, he married, began to rent an apartment. At the age of 28, he made a change in his parental apartment, works in the Russian edition of the American magazine Men's Health [9] , and brings up three sons. |
| Asya | Born in Leningrad (now - St. Petersburg). At the age of 14, she encountered difficulties in the family, changed the school. At 21, she refused to participate in the series, but at 28 she returned, telling about her active life, that she had a daughter. |
| Denis and Stas | The twin brothers were born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and lived in the Vesyoliy settlement area . By the age of 14, their father died. By the age of 21, Denis studied at the school and devoted himself to navigation, and Stas worked as a bartender and studied as a cook (cook). At 28, Denis was left without work - he did not go sailing for a year; Stas works as a waiter, a security guard. They live separately, both are not married, began to move away from each other. |
| Dima | Born in Moscow, in the working area, was an October student . By the age of 14 he was fond of rap . By the age of 21, he returned from the army, having served in the Airborne Forces , then worked as a guard, studied at the Faculty of Management and Management, later left for Germany, found his love there. At the age of 28, he said that the marriage in Germany broke up (the son remained from the marriage), works as a machinist in the Moscow metro , plays soccer for electric depot, continues to engage in bodybuilding . |
| Jeanne and Lenya | A brother and sister were born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) into a Jewish family who had emigrated to Israel at the time of the filming of the first film. At 21, both served in the Israeli army. By the age of 28, Jeanne still lives in Israel, where she got married, and Lenya went to live in Argentina , where he tried to organize his own business. Brother and sister during this period of life saw each other every few years. Lenya showed in the film his restored Birth Certificate with a birth date of July 8, 1983. |
| Katya | Born in Vilnius , she began to study at school, but then studied at home. At the age of 14, she already graduated from an external school, studied English, Italian and other languages, was about to enter a medical university. By the age of 21 I entered the university, studied psychology, but then left school, talked about mental problems. At 28, she lives with her mother, studies English philology, works as a call center operator, and graduated from Vilnius University . |
| Lado | Born in Tbilisi , in the family of the party elite. At the age of 14, he survived the war and devastation in Georgia. At 21, he lived in Strasbourg , studied law, had a serious car accident, but recovered. At 28, he works in Luxembourg , broke up with a girl whom he met for several years. |
| Marina | Born in the village of Dievo-Gorodishche , Nekrasovsky district , Yaroslavl region [10] on the banks of the Volga , in the family of a priest . At the age of 7, her confession was removed, the family had many household chores. At the age of 14 and 21, her life has not changed much, Marina still lived in the family. By the age of 28, she left for the city, but returned a year later, still helping her parents in the temple. |
| Nastya | Russian girl, was born in the capital of the Kyrgyz SSR Frunze (now Bishkek). By the age of 14, she is shown resting on the lake. At the age of 21, she studied English at the university, managed to create and dissolve the marriage. By the age of 28, she again married the owner of the cafe, who is older than her. During the revolution, marauders burned down a cafe, Nastya and her husband and child moved to Krasnodar , where they rented an apartment. Nastya does not work, giving to children all the time. |
| Pavlik | Born in Baku , Azerbaijan SSR , after the introduction of tanks, the family emigrated and lived in a tent camp near the Kremlin . Further, his fate is unknown. In 2007, the director suggested that he and his family emigrated to Los Angeles [11] . In 2011, he indicated that they were trying to search for Pavel Sychev on social networks. In 2013, the director said that he might have found Pavel working as an investigator, and admits his return to the project [12] . |
| Rita | Born in the small village of Listvyanka [1] on the shores of Lake Baikal . At age 14, the film crew met her in the hospital after an attempted suicide. At 21, she gave birth to a daughter, Sophia, and her husband left the family after the army. Father saved up money and bought a sawmill. By the age of 28, he lives and works in Irkutsk, his daughter lives with her parents in the village, Rita’s father bought the ship and became its captain. In 2017, relatives reported on Rita’s death from pneumonia in 2015 on social media. Rita’s daughter lives with her grandmother [13] . |
| Sasha | Born in the village of Dievo-Gorodishche, Yaroslavl Region [10] on the banks of the Volga River. By the age of 21, he served in the army. At 28, he has a wife and son, he works as a driver-forwarding agent, spending five days a week in Moscow, and on weekends arriving in his native village. |
| Tanya | Born in Leningrad (now - St. Petersburg). At 7 years old, they tried to give her to practice ballet. By the age of 28, she married Yuri, a daughter was born in the family. He works as the head of the personnel department in the company, Tanya has one of the calmest destinies among the heroes of the film. |
| Ira | Born in Leningrad (now - St. Petersburg). At 7 years old and 14 years old she starred with Tanya. At the age of 21 and 28, he does not appear in the film for personal reasons. |
Awards and nominations
| For the film “Fourteen. Born in the USSR ”(1998) | |||||
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| Year | Festival / Prize | Category | Result | ||
| 1998 | BAFTA | Royal Academy Award for Best Documentary of the Year | Victory | ||
| 1998 | London Film Festival | The second prize to them. G. Grierson for Best Documentary of the Year | Victory | ||
| 1999 | Emmy | For the best documentary of the year | Victory | ||
| 1999 | Stalker International Film Festival of Human Rights Films in Moscow | Grand Prix "Stalker", Prize of the Guild of Filmmakers, Prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics | Victory | ||
| 1999 | IFF Slavic and Orthodox peoples “ Golden Knight ” | A. Sidelnikov Prize for Best Director | Victory | ||
| For the film “Born in the USSR: 21 years old” (2006) | |||||
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| Year | Festival / Prize | Category | Result | ||
| 2007 | Nika | For the best non-fiction film | Victory | ||
| 2007 | OKF non-fiction film "Russia" in Yekaterinburg | Special Prize and Audience Award | Victory | ||
| 2007 | Human Rights Films “Stalker” in Moscow | Prize for the best non-fiction film | Victory | ||
| 2008 | IFF Slavic and Orthodox peoples “Golden Knight” | Prize of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia | Victory | ||
| 2012 | TEFI | For Best Television Documentary / TV Series [14] | Victory | ||
See also
- Adolescence is an American film of 2014.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 21 years later - the newspaper Friday (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment August 8, 2012. Archived September 1, 2012.
- ↑ Premiere of the fourth part “Born in the USSR”
- ↑ Born in the USSR. Continuation / Documentary / Russia.tv
- ↑ Talk "Watching ... Discussing ..."
- ↑ Talk show "Watching ... Discussing ..." - September 15 - the first talk show in the new season! (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment September 9, 2012. Archived December 4, 2012.
- ↑ Festival “Let's Live!” Opens with the film “Bribe” - Russian newspaper
- ↑ http://rodgor-vlg.ru/rezhisser-sergei-miroshnichenko-seichas-ochen-malo-problemnyh-filmov.html
- ↑ Radio ECHO of Moscow :: Telekeeper, 09.09.2012 18:10 Control for those born in the USSR: Sergey Miroshnichenko, Igor Shadhan
- ↑ Talk to me again: what it’s like to be a TV personality all my life . Date of treatment November 2, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 “Born in the USSR”: greetings from Yaroslavl heroes! // KP.RU
- ↑ Anna Kachkaeva. Youth on a television screen . Radio Liberty . Radio Liberty (06/25/2007).
- ↑ Sergey Kosachev. Modern Russia needs a large-scale documentary chronicle ("Conversation with Konstantin Kosachev") . Conversation with Konstantin Kosachev . Voice of Russia (06/17/2013).
- ↑ wall
- ↑ “Born in the USSR”: awards