Igor Evgenievich Minaev (born January 15, 1954, Kharkov , Ukrainian SSR, USSR ) is a Soviet and Ukrainian film and theater director, screenwriter.
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Birth name | Igor Evgenievich Minaev |
Date of Birth | January 15, 1954 (aged 65) |
Place of Birth | Kharkov , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |
Citizenship | USSR → France |
Profession | film director , screenwriter |
Career | since 1977 - present time |
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Biography
Igor Minaev was born on January 15, 1954 in Kharkov. In 1977 he graduated from the directing course of the Faculty of Cinematography of the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts. Karpenko-Kary (workshop of V. Nebera ). He worked at the Odessa film studio. The first director's work did not please the authorities, and for several years he was not allowed to work [1] . In 1985, Igor Minaev directed the short film “Telephone” based on a poem by Chukovsky (the role of K. I. Chukovsky was played by Lembit Ulfsak ) [2] . The film was awarded the prize of the children's jury at the 1987 Moscow Film Festival . In the late 90s he shot two feature films “Cold March” and “First Floor”, which reflected the perestroika beginning in the country, and which were selected for showing at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988 and 1990 [3] [4] . According to Igor Minaev, “it was a time of complete chaos and at the same time absolute freedom. Then you could do whatever you want - a little money was required. But rental was out of the question ” [5] . Later, in 2013, at the Odessa Film Festival , the film “First Floor” was presented in the retrospective “The Lost World”, which showed the best Ukrainian films shot at sunset of the Soviet era, in 1990-91, but not seen by the viewer because of destroyed movie distribution [6] . According to film critic Lyubomir Goseiko, “the paradox of the situation with the“ lost ”cinema of the 90s is that the international festival history of most films is much brighter than their life in their homeland. The generation of filmmakers of the 90s is called the “dispersed revival” - none of the generation of the 90s was able to realize themselves in their homeland. "
In 1988, Igor Minaev moved to Paris, taught at the FEMIS film school, staged performances (“The History of a Soldier ” by Ramy to the music of Stravinsky , “Florentine Nights” by Tsvetaeva , where Elena Safronova played) [1] . With the support of the French IVF fund, focused on cooperation with cinematographies of Central and Eastern Europe, Igor Minaev (as well as Pavel Lungin and Vitaliy Kanevsky ) got the opportunity to make films [7] .
In 1993, Igor Minaev filmed the story of Yevgeny Zamyatin “Flood” with Isabelle Huppert in the title role.
In 2002, Igor Minaev directed the film “Moonlit Glades”, a dramatic love story of a brother and sister, dating after a decade of separation. At the festival " Kinoshok " in Anapa, the picture received the Grand Prix .
In 2006, Igor Minaev's painting “Far from Sunset Boulevard” [8] was released . According to film critic Leonid Pavluchik, “the story of a gay director, kindly treated by the authorities, who shot offensive musicals in the Stalin era, in which his wife shone (a scandalous allusion to Grigory Alexandrov and Lyubov Orlova), is told in the film too simplistically, without knowledge of the drama and contradictions of that era " [9] . The film shown at the Kinoshok film festival was received quite ironically by the Russian press [9] , and received two prizes at the Honfleur Russian Film Festival [10] .
In 2010, Igor Minaev was a member of the jury of the International Film Festival in Montreal [11] .
Filmography
Director
- 1980 - Guest
- 1987 - Cold March
- 1990 - Ground floor
- 1991 - Underground Temple of Communism
- 1993 - Flood
- 2002 - Moonlit
- 2005 - Far from Sunset Boulevard
- 2010 - Winter
- 2016 - Blue dress
Screenwriter
- 1991 - Underground Temple of Communism (with Anne de Puvourville)
- 1993 - Flood (with Jacques Bainack)
- 2002 - Moonlit glades (with Olga Mikhailova)
- 2005 - Far from Sunset Boulevard (with Olga Mikhailova)
- 2016 - Blue dress (with Olga Mikhailova)
Awards and nominations
- 1987 - Moscow International Film Festival:
- Children's Jury Prize for the best short film (“Phone”)
- 1988 - All-Union Film Festival:
- Best Director Award (Cold March)
- 1990 - Golden Duke Film Festival in Odessa:
- Jury diploma for directing ("Ground Floor")
- 1993 - OKF Kinoshok in Anapa:
- Cinema Culture Prize (Flood)
- 2002 - OKF Kinoshok in Anapa:
- Grand Prix "Golden Vine" for the best feature film ("Moonlit")
- 2006 - Honfleur Russian Film Festival (“Far from Sunset Boulevard”) [10] :
- Grand Prix of the festival
- prize for best script
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Far from Mosfilm . pribaltnews.ru (January 3, 2009). Date of treatment April 7, 2015.
- ↑ Movies for all time! . Youth of Estonia (March 13, 2009). Date of treatment April 7, 2015.
- ↑ Igor Minaev. Films presented in Cannes . Festival-cannes.fr. Date of treatment April 11, 2015.
- ↑ Igor Minaev, réalisateur et Vadim Sher, compositeur . francemusique.fr (January 10, 2014). Date of treatment April 7, 2015.
- ↑ “Over the 20 years of the existence of Ukraine, not a single interesting director has appeared” . Gazeta.ua (July 19, 2012). Date of treatment April 8, 2015.
- ↑ Odessa Film Festival 2012: Chaplin on the Potemkin Stairs . Tochka.net (March 28, 2012). Date of treatment April 8, 2015.
- ↑ Kirill Razlogov. Not subject to export. Domestic cinema and the global context // The Art of Cinema: Journal. - 2006. - No. 7 .
- ↑ Natalia Rtishcheva. The movie shock is in our opinion (inaccessible link) . Native newspaper (September 8, 2006). Date of treatment March 31, 2015. Archived December 6, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 Leonid Pavlyuchik. Far from Mosfilm . Labor (November 29, 2006). Date of treatment March 31, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 Gregory Zaslavsky. The characters are too similar, too many analogies with our time . Independent newspaper (January 18, 2007). Date of treatment March 31, 2015.
- ↑ Results of the International Film Festival in Montreal 2010 . rudata.ru. Date of treatment March 31, 2015.
Links
- Igor Minaiev on the Internet Movie Database
- Igor Minaev in the Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema
- Igor Minaev . kinoglaz.fr. Date of treatment April 7, 2015.