“Nad Ozerom” is a short film by the Russian director Dmitry Frolov based on the works of Alexander Blok . The film is not a film adaptation in the usual way: it is a reconstruction of the cinema of the early XX century, made by our contemporaries. Being a poetic and philosophical reflection of the perception of poetry by A. Blok, the film at the same time reproduces the atmosphere of the legendary Silver Age .
| Nad Ozerom | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | vanguard |
| Producer | Dmitry Frolov |
| Author script | |
| In the main cast | Peter Kremis Romil Rachev Natalya Surkova |
| Operator | |
| Composer | Sergey Oskolkov |
| Duration | 10 min. |
| A country |  Russia |
| Language | |
| Year | 1995 |
| IMDb | ID 7111884 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Shooting
- 4 Festivals
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Story
The poor poet (perhaps Blok himself), his ghost lady and the third character, elusively hinting at the beauty and an article on Dantes , are not immersed by the authors in the feast of aesthetics , but in the simple and eternal reality of our sinful world. Tormented by passions, they are sometimes pathetic, sometimes beautiful in their own way, but how insignificant are their impulses, which fit entirely into the scheme of a classic love triangle. And only the Poet’s imagination, even whipped up with cocaine , can transform this wretchedness into a hymn to the eternal confrontation of two men who have fallen in love with one woman.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Peter Kremis | Poor poet |
| Romil Rachev | Friend of the poet |
| Natalya Surkova | Lady |
Filming
Work on the film began in 1994 according to a script that does not resemble the final film at all. The picture was shot in the very place where Alexander Blok composed the poem “Above the Lake”, as well as the famous “Stranger”. This is the Shuvalovo-Ozerki station, where at the beginning of the 20th century, artistic youth and the nobility loved to relax in the summer seasons. Some plans of the film were shot on the spot, from where the surrounding is described in the Blok's poem with an accuracy of several meters. The music for the film was composed and recorded in 2006 by the classical composer Sergei Alexandrovich Oskolkov . [1] The initial version of the 1995 film was 15 minutes, but then the whole scene was cut from it by the director, which reduced the film by a third. The film was shot on a camera with a manual drive, reminiscent of the technique of shooting films in the era of silent cinema. [one]
Shot from the movie "Nad Ozerom"
Shot from the movie "Nad Ozerom"
Shot from the movie "Nad Ozerom"
Festivals
- International Festival of Animation and Short Films in Dresden, Germany, April 1996 (preview of the material);
- 6th Russian Film Festival "Literature and Cinema", Gatchina, March, 2000;
- "Pure Dreams-3", International Independent Film Festival, St. Petersburg, November, 2000;
- Petersburg 2000 Annual Exhibition of New Works by Petersburg Artists , Manege, January 2001;
- 30th International Film Festival in Rotterdam, January, 2001; [2] [3] [4]
- 9th International “Festival of Festivals” in St. Petersburg, June 2001;
- 11th International Film Forum of the Slavic and Orthodox Peoples “Golden Knight”, Ryazan, May 2002;
- 4th International Film Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, November-December 2002;
- "Seasons of the Russian language and culture in Germany - 2003", Berlin, February 2003;
- 33rd International Short Film Festival in Tampere, Finland, March 2003;
- Festival of Contemporary Art "Rollback", St. Petersburg, April 2005;
- SINEFANTOM Club, Moscow, August 17, 2005;
- 20th International Festival "Europalia", Mons, Belgium, autumn 2005;
- X International Festival of Arts “Sergey Oskolkov and his friends”, St. Petersburg, Peterhof, Oranienbaum, June 2006;
- 9th International Independent Film Festival “Clean Dreams”, St. Petersburg, November 2006;
- 16th Experimental Film Week, Madrid, November 2006;
- 3rd International Festival of Audiovisual Arts “Videology”, Volgograd, December 2006;
- 5th International Pune Film Festival, India, January 2007;
- Eleventh International Sergei Kuryokhin Festival SKIF, St. Petersburg, April 2007;
- I Baltic Biennale, I BALTIC BIENNIAL, St. Petersburg, Manege, July 2008
- MEDIAWAVE - "On the Road" 6th Online Film Festival, Gyor, Hungary, March, 2019; [5]
- International Film Festival "Light and Future", Houston, USA, March 2019 (Prizewinner) [6]