Russian Films in Translation at Fish Fabrique
Dear Friends,
The Russian Drama Studio Theatre wants you to hear what you've been missing!
Finally, foreign visitors of our great city can enjoy not only Russian ballet and opera, but theatre and cinema as well.
Before this year, visitors of St. Petersburg who do not speak Russian where unable to fully enjoy one of the city's greatest cultural attractions - its theatre. If they wanted to enjoy performances of classic Russian dramas in one of our theatres, they could only watch and hope that they would understand.
The Russian Drama Studio Theatre presents productions of classic Russian drama as well as screenings of contemporary Russian cinema in Russian with simultaneous English translation available to audience members via personal radio headsets.
If you are interested in these shows you can contact us at: e-mail: russiandrama@inbox.ru or (812) 167-08-27.
For more information look at : http://russiandrama.home.att.net/
As before, we continue to screen Russian Films at Fish Fabrique at 53 Ligovsky Prospect , St.Petersburg (The
club can be reached through the archway inside the entrance for "Pushkinskaya 10").
Fish Fabrique, aka "Pushkinskaya 10", is a unique vanguard club and art centre, which has enjoyed popularity
with Petersburgers and guests of St. Petersburg for over 10 years. People come here to spend a provocative
evening in a friendly atmosphere, enjoy live music performed by the most interesting musicians, or see a current
art exhibition. Since 2000, Fish Fabrique has become the only place in the city where its guests can watch
Russian films with a voice over translation into English (or other languages as requested).
RUSSIAN CINEMA WITH ENGLISH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION
CTB Film Company
The CTB Film Company (St. Petersburg, Russia) was founded in 1992. It is one of the most successful
production companies in Russia. Its main activities are filmmaking and distribution. CTB has produced over 20
films which have received more than 60 awards at Russian and International festivals.
Films such as The Time for Sorrow Has Not Yet Come, Trofim, Brother, Of Freaks and Men, Check Point, Scarecrow and Sisters have been presented at a large number of international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto) and Brother and Of Freaks and Men were sold in more than 20 countries.
Merry Xmas Surgery, Brother, Check Point, Peculiarities of National Fishing, Don't Cry Mommy and Brother-2
were box-office hits in Russia and received a number of prestigious national awards.
CTB Film Company presents:
Films dir. by Alexey Balabanov
Alexei Balabanov was born in Sverdlovsk in 1959. After graduating from Foreign Languages University in
Gorky, he served in his country's Air Force as a military interpreter, travelling extensively in Africa and the
Middle East. In Moscow, he studied directing and made a handful of 30-35 minute-long narrative shorts. From
1983 to 1987 he worked as an assistant director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studios. Balabanov worked on scientific
documentaries, developing his technique and learning a method of production. With film crew he travelled over
the country, especially over eastern part of it: the Urals, Siberia, Yakutia, Sakhalin, Kamchatka. Prior to his
feature debut Schastlivije Dny (Happy Days), he made two documentaries. He settled in St-Petersburg to join the
"New Russian Cinema" movement.
1989 Nastya and Yegor (documentary)
1990 From the History of Aerostatcs in Russia (documentary)
1991 Happy Days
1994 The Castle
1995 Trofim
1997 Brother
1998 Of Freaks and Men
2000 Brother-2
Films dir. by Oleg Kovalov
Born in 1950, Oleg Kovalov graduated from the Film Department of VGIK in 1983, having studied with Surkov and Mamatova. Beginning in 1978, he has published a host of theoretical and critical essays on the nature and problems of cinema in magazines such as Soviet Screen, The Art of Film, Seance, Opinionand many others.
He is the author of It's Hard to be the First to Talk, a book published in 1989 in Moscow; author of screenplay for The Russian Idea (dir. by Sergei Selyanov).
As an actor he has played one of leading roles in Bumazhny Glaza Prishvitsa (dir. by V. Ogorodnikov, 1990) and
Kopeika (dir. by I.Dikhovichny, 2001) and minor roles in Vzlomshik (V. Ogorodnikov, 1988) and Nicotine (dir.
by E. Ivanov, 1993).
1991 Garden of the Scorpion
1993 Island of the Dead
1995 Concert For Rats
1996 Sergei Eisenstein. Autobiography
1998 Sergei Eisenstein. Mexican Fantasy
2001 Dark Night
Films dir. by Yevgeniy Yufit
Yevgeniy Yufit was born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the early 1980s he began working as a painter
and art photographer. In 1985 he set up the first independent film studio in Russia, MZHALALA FILM, which
brought together artists, writers, directors and others sympathetic to radical aesthetic experimentation. At this
studio Yufit made a number of films which have been shown at the world's major film festivals including
Montreal, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Moscow. His film Papa, Father Frost Is Dead was awarded the
Grand Prix at the Rimini Film Festival in Italy. Yufit's paintings and photographs have been shown in major
exhibitions of contemporary Russian art since 1985, at the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Kunstverein, Hannover and The Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
City. Works by Yufit are to be found in museums, galleries and private collections both in Russia and abroad.
FILMOGRAPHY
1984 Werewolf Orderlies 1989 Warriors of Heaven
1985 Woodcutter 1991 Papa, Father Frost is Dead
1987 Spring 1994 Will
1988 Fortitude 1995 The Wooden Room
1988 Suicide Monsters 1998 Silver Heads
"LENFILM"
Lenfilm was established in St. Petersburg in 1918 as Russia's first film studio. Since then it has produced over
1.500 full-length feature films, available for worldwide distribution. Many of these films have been awarded
prizes from the world's greatest film festivals.
We present the following films by Lenfilm with simultaneous English translation:
Shakespeare in Russian Cinema:
"The Twelfth Night", 1955, Comedy, 90 min, color.
Written and directed by: Jan Fried
Camera: Yevgeny Shapiro
Cast: Clara Luchko, Alla Larionova, Vadim Medvedev, Mikhail Yanshin, GeorgyVitsin, Vasily Merkuryev, Bruno Friendlich, Sergey Philipov.
A screen version of a comedy of the same title by William Shakespeare.
"Hamlet", 1964, Drama, 2 parts, 70 min each, wide screen.
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev
Camera: Lonas Gritsyus
Cast: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Mikail Nazvanov, Elza Radzinya, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vadim Medvedev, Igor Dmitriyev, Grigory Gay, Vladimir Erenberg.
Based on Willam Shakespeare's tragedy of the same title, translated by Boris Pasternak
The Film was awarded the Special Premium and the Honorary Diploma of the Jury of the International Film
Festival in Venice (1964); the Special Premium and the Diploma of the Jury of the National Cinema Club
Federation at the International Film Festival in San Sebastiano (1965).
" King Lear", 1971, 2 parts (1st - 65 min, 2nd - 65 min), b/w, wide screen.
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev
Camera: Lonas Gritsyus
Cast: Yuri Yarvet, Elza Radzinya, Galina Volchek, Valentina Shendrikova, Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, Alexei Petrenko, Karl Serbis, Leonhard Merzin, Regimantas Adomatis, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Yuozas Budraitis, Alexander Vokatch..
Based on Willam Shakespeare's tragedy of the same title, translated by Boris Pasternak
Chekhov in Russian Cinema
"Lady With a Lap Dog", 1960, Drama, 83 min, b/w.
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifits
Camera: Andrei Moskvin, Dmitry Meskhiyev
Cast: Iya Savina, Alexei Batalov, Nina Alisova, Penteleimon Krymov, Yuri Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg.
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov
The Film was awarded the Special Prize for Humanism of the International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1960).
The actress Iya Savina was honored with the Special Prize of the International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1960).
"A Bad Good Person", 1973, Drama, 100 min, color, wide screen.
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifits
Camera: Henrich Marandzhyan
Cast: Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Maksakova, Anatoly Papanov, Anatoly Azo, Yuri Medvedev.
Loosely based on "Duel", a story by Anton Chekhov
A dramatic story about the relationships between two young people, Layevsky and von Koren, their implacability
and antagonistic natures resulting in a duel. The action unfolds in the 1890-s in a small town in the south of
Russia.
How to book a film screening at the Fish Fabrique which will be translated for
you by creative and experienced translators.
1. Any of the above films can be booked, but as early as 2 weeks prior to the set date of screening (any
Wednesday or Thursday at 7 p. m.) Your order must be for a group of no less then 15 people.
2. The price of each ticket is 200 roubles.
3. Film watchers are welcome to stay after the film to enjoy the club's repertoire music concerts.
COME AND WATCH WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING
If you are interested in this shows you can contact us at: e-mail: russiandrama@inbox.ru or (812) 167-08-27.
For more information look at : http://russiandrama.home.att.net/