“Long live the antipodes!” Is a film by Russian documentary director Viktor Kosakovsky , released in 2011 . The film tells about people living in opposite parts of the Earth. The premiere of the film took place at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
| Long live the antipodes! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | documentary |
| Producer | Victor Kosakovsky |
| Producer | Haino Dekert, Just De Vries, Juan Manuel Egaña, Alexander Rodnyansky [1] |
| Operator | Victor Kosakovsky |
| Composer | Alexander Popov |
| Film company | arte, Gema Films, Lemming Film, STS [2] [3] |
| Duration | 108 min |
| Budget | € 1,500,000 |
| A country |  Germany  Argentina  Netherlands  Chile |
| Tongue | , , , and |
| Year | 2011 |
| IMDb | ID 1757939 |
Content
Story
The idea of the film was born by Viktor Kosakovsky when he thought about what would happen if you draw a through axis from one point on the planet in the opposite direction? [3] In the film, several documentary plots are united by a geographical feature - exactly the opposite coordinates were taken. These are Argentina and China, New Zealand and Spain, Siberia and Chile, Hawaii and Botswana. At these opposite points on Earth, the director seeks and finds similarities in the relationships of people.
Rewards
- 2012 Award “ Laurel Branch ” in the nomination “Best non-fiction film” [5]
- 2012 The White Elephant Award for the best documentary of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics of Russia
- 2012 Grand Prix of the open festival of documentary films "Russia" in Yekaterinburg [2]
- 2012 Mayaual Prize at the Guadalajara Film Festival, Mexico
- 2011 Riff Environmental Award of the Reykjavik Film Festival, Iceland
- 2011 European Film Academy Documentary Award Nomination
Quotes
- “I don’t see the point of just shooting, there must be some kind of idea, some kind of concept. Art is the same as science. Only the funds used are different. Art seeks answers to the same questions. How is the world invented? Why does everything happen anyway? Why were you born? ” [6]
Criticism
- Dmitry Tenth speaks of the film as follows: “To shoot this large-scale picture, the director went on an unusual trip around the world, visiting those few places that are on the globe exactly one against the other. Using spectacular mounting joints, Kosakovsky addresses the unusual topic of antipodes and creates a poem about a multipolar world ... [...] There is a solitary fisherman from an Argentine village, a fish merchant on a bustling Shanghai street, a lighthouse keeper on Cape Horn in Chile, and a sea officer on Lake Baikal. These stories are simultaneously similar and directly opposite to each other, and the film itself fascinates and touches at the same time ” [7] .
- Valery Kichin characterizes the picture as “a visual feast, breathtaking shooting and undisguised author's delight from what he saw” [8] .
Notes
- ↑ The Russian antipode film became the second opening film in Venice . RIA Novosti (July 25, 2011).
- ↑ 1 2 Prizes of the XXIII open festival of documentary films "Russia" . Russia
- ↑ 1 2 Viktor Kosakovsky: someone made my film for me . RIA Novosti (August 30, 2011).
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 uploading Freebase data - Google .
- ↑ Films winners of the Laurel Branch 2012 National Award in nine categories . Artdocfest .
- ↑ Oleg Sulkin, “Voice of America” // 04/21/2012 ( Long live the antipodes! )
- ↑ Dmitry the Tenth // 06/21/2012 ( Films of the Moscow Film Festival: antipodes on Earth and the Nazis on the Moon Archival copy of October 28, 2012 on the Wayback Machine )
- ↑ Valery Kichin // 06/22/2012 ( Five MIFF films that should not be missed )