Lopushansky, Konstantin Sergeevich

Born on June 12, 1947 in Dnepropetrovsk ^[5] . Mother - Sofia Petrovna Lopushanskaya (1926-2008), father - Sergei Timofeevich Lopushansky (d. 1953).

By first education, he is a musician. After graduating from the Kazan Conservatory in violin (1970), he studied at the Leningrad State Conservatory (Faculty of Music Directing, 1973-1976) ^[5] .

At the age of 26, he received a Ph.D. in art criticism (the dissertation “Russian Music and Performing Aesthetics of the Second Quarter of the 19th Century.”). He worked as a teacher at the Kazan and Leningrad Conservatoires (the history of performing arts), as an editor at the Leningrad Academic Maly Opera House ^[5] .

He graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors (directing department, workshop of Emil Lotyanu , 1979) ^[5] . He was an assistant on the set of Andrei Tarkovsky 's film "Stalker" ^[6] . He works as the director of the Lenfilm film studios (since 1980) ^[5] and Andrei Sigle's Proline Film .

Headed the Christian Film Association of St. Petersburg (1991-1996) ^[5] .

Full member of the Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts "Nika" ^[7] .

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997) ^{[8] [5]} , People's Artist of Russia (2007).

In 2007 he was chairman of the jury of the XVII International Film Festival “Message to Man” .

In February 2012, Konstantin Lopushansky began shooting the film “Role” according to his own script (written jointly with Pavel Finn ). The film takes place during the Civil War ^[9] . The main role in the film was played by actor Maxim Sukhanov . The premiere of the film took place as part of the competitive program of the 35th Moscow International Film Festival at the end of June 2013.

His first film, a short film “Tears in Windy Weather” , was directed by the director in 1978 .

The thesis, the short film “Solo” ( 1980 ), was recognized by many as the best film about the blockade , the main character was played by one of Tarkovsky’s favorite actors Nikolai Grinko . The film “Solo” attended many film festivals and was awarded the IFF Grand Prix of Documentary and Short Films in Bilbao ( Spain ).

A student of Andrei Tarkovsky , who consistently pursues the spiritual and aesthetic principles of the master in his work, Konstantin Lopushansky is one of the few Russian directors to whom the concept of “author's cinema” applies. Calling himself “a convinced and unconvinced adherent of total authorship,” Lopushansky does not accept a compromise in any form and, above all, with respect to himself. He sets himself the most complex artistic tasks, each of his films is a testament to intellectual work and deep personal experiences. The director’s aesthetic landmarks are Ingmar Bergman , Robert Bresson , Kenji Mizoguchi . The place of spiritual and artistic search is Russia . “An organic feature of Russian culture is cosmism, the desire in one work to give the image of the Universe, a metaphor for History,” writes critic Mikhail Trofimenkov in the magazine “Session”. - Without this quality, our culture will lose the brightness and truthfulness that the inhabitants of the "civilized world" are looking for in it. Konstantin Lopushansky is a director who has taken over this “ultimate” function. She goes to him, she - to face. "

“The main mission of the cinema is to give a spiritual beginning to the viewer, to help him develop as an individual, grow above himself and adequately evaluate the society in which he lives, pointing out his shortcomings.

Now everyone has literally moved on the principle of entertainment. There is propaganda of the “life as it is” style from the screen: they say, we shoot without any snot, without any false and outdated values, we leave for “pure art”, spitting on the surrounding reality. This approach leads to the creation of absolutely soulless and inanimate cinema, plastic, if you want. This is neither idealism of high feelings, nor hard reality of problem movies. All these stupid tales about bandits and golden youth - well, what kind of normal people live like that?

Every person in life encounters both enduring values ​​(love, friendship, betrayal), and universal human cataclysms (wars, ethnic conflicts, hunger and poverty). You need to make a movie about all this, it is with the help of its tools that it is possible to draw the attention of the viewer to the problems that he passes in everyday life. Not everyone is ready to empathize with the oppressed like this, from scratch, reading newspaper articles and seeing television reports, for him, thousands of human victims will remain only a figure in the newspaper. And cinema is a tool of “comfortable empathy”: sitting in a soft chair, watching the director’s skill, the viewer begins to empathize with the heroes, whoever they are, and then, leaving the hall, he will not hit a foreigner or a homeless person ” ^[10] .

• 1978 - Tears in windy weather - scriptwriter, director
• 1980 - Solo - screenwriter, director
• 1986 - Letters of a Dead Man - director, screenwriter together with V. Rybakov , with the participation of B. Strugatsky
• 1987 - Naked - scriptwriter, together with G. Nikolaev
• 1989 - Museum Visitor - Scriptwriter, Director
• 1994 - Russian Symphony - scriptwriter, director
• 2001 - The End of the Century ^[11] - scriptwriter, director
• 2006 - Ugly Swans - co-author with V. Rybakov , director
• 2013 - Role - co-author with Pavel Finn , director

In 2018, he supported the appeal of the European Film Academy in defense of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia, in prison. ^[12]

• Articles about Konstantin Lopushansky on the website of the magazine "Session" (neopr.) . seance.ru. Date of treatment June 2, 2013. Archived on June 6, 2013.
• On the work and life of Lopushansky on the site of the Chapaev project
• Konstantin Lopushansky (neopr.) (Inaccessible link - history ) . Encyclopedia of domestic cinema, ed. L. Arkus . russiancinema.ru. Date of treatment May 7, 2013.
• Fedorov A.V. Science fiction warns (neopr.) (DOC) (inaccessible link) . Owls Russia. S. 5 . www.edu.of.ru (July 20, 1986). Date of treatment May 3, 2013. Archived May 11, 2013.
• A new film by Konstantin Lopushansky "Role" ... (unopened) . LeopART (kinote.info) (January 25, 2012). - A press conference on the launch of the film "Role" was held at the Lenfilm film studio. Date of treatment December 20, 2012. Archived December 23, 2012.
• Mazurova S. Metamorphoses of the Hamburg account: director Konstantin Lopushansky about the new Russian cinema and director's ethics (neopr.) . Russian newspaper (federal issue), No. 4639 . rg.ru (April 16, 2008). Date of treatment May 7, 2013.
• Three Russian films were selected in the main competition of the 35th MIFF (neopr.) . interfax-russia.ru (May 30, 2013).
• The first films of the competition program of the Moscow Film Festival (neopr.) Have been announced . RIA Novosti (ria.ru) (May 18, 2013). Date of treatment May 31, 2013. Archived May 31, 2013.