Country: Russia, Ukraine, Poland
Year: 2015
Duration: 130'
After returning from abroad, Sasha visits the construction site he and his sister inherited after their father’s death. In the meantime, an immigrant worker is looking for his colleagues; an architect’s forehead is covered by bright red skin, and then there’s a tourist guide who was a hero at the time of Yeltsin’s revolution. A young student asks, “Who are we? Who am I? Everything is chaotic.” Seven episodes tell the story of a country.
Biography
film director
Alexey German Jr.
Aleksej German Jr. (Moscow, 1976), the son of the famous Russian director Alexey German, studied at the State Academy of Theatre Arts in Saint Petersburg (SPGATI), and earned his degree in filmmaking at the State University of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Before Under Electric Clouds, Venice has presented all of his films: The Last Train (2003) won the Special Mention in the Nuovi Territori section; Garpastum was selected in competition, and in 2008 Paper Soldier won the Silver Lion for Best Director and the Osella for Best Cinematography. In 2009 he participated in the Orizzonti section, with episode Kim in the anthology film Crush.
FILMOGRAFIA
Znamya (Banner, cm, 1998), Bolshoje Osenneje Pole (Big Autumn Field, 1999), Durachki (Fools, 2001), Posledniy poezd (The Last Train, 2003), Garpastum (2005), Bumaznyj soldat (Paper Soldier, 2008), Korotkoye Zamykanie (Crush, ep. Kim, 2009), From Tokyo (cm, 2011), Pod electricheskimi oblakami (Under Electric Clouds, 2015), Dovlatov (Dovlatov - I libri invisibili, 2018)
Declaration
film director
“We live in big cities but for some reason we pretend that they don’t exist. For some reason we isolate part of our lives from the connotations of reality. There are particular situations that exist as part of a certain kind of life in Moscow, with clubs and girls in sparkly evening dresses — this life lends itself to aestheticisation, but nobody has noticed this. […] A global war is happening and it will continue to happen. But for me, cinema is not a newspaper. It is not a mouthpiece of perestroika. This is not a concert on Police Day. For me, this is an attempt to tell you about some important things.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Aleksej German Jr.
fotografia/cinematography
Evgeniy Privin, Sergey Mikhalchuk
montaggio/film editing
Sergej Ivanov
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Elena Okopnaya
musica/music
Andrey Surotdinov
suono/sound
Ivan Gusakov
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Louis Franck (Petr), Merab Ninidze (Nikolay), Viktoriya Korotkova (Sasha), Chulpan Khamatova (Valya), Viktor Bugakov (Danya), Karim Pakachakov (Karim), Konstantin Zeliger (Marat), Anastasiya Melnikova (Irina), Piotr Gasowski (Dyadya Borya)
produttori/producers
Artem Vasiliev, Andrey Saveliev, Rushan Nasibulin, Sergey Antonov, Egor Olesov
produzione/production
Metrafilms
coproduttori/coproducers
Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kamińska, Izabela Wójcik, Krzysztof Zanussi
coproduzione/coproduction
Apple Film Production, TOR Film Studio
distribuzione/distribution
Movies Inspired
contatti/contacts
Movies Inspired
Stefano Jacono
stefano.jacono@moviesinspired.com
Aleksej German Jr.
fotografia/cinematography
Evgeniy Privin, Sergey Mikhalchuk
montaggio/film editing
Sergej Ivanov
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Elena Okopnaya
musica/music
Andrey Surotdinov
suono/sound
Ivan Gusakov
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Louis Franck (Petr), Merab Ninidze (Nikolay), Viktoriya Korotkova (Sasha), Chulpan Khamatova (Valya), Viktor Bugakov (Danya), Karim Pakachakov (Karim), Konstantin Zeliger (Marat), Anastasiya Melnikova (Irina), Piotr Gasowski (Dyadya Borya)
produttori/producers
Artem Vasiliev, Andrey Saveliev, Rushan Nasibulin, Sergey Antonov, Egor Olesov
produzione/production
Metrafilms
coproduttori/coproducers
Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kamińska, Izabela Wójcik, Krzysztof Zanussi
coproduzione/coproduction
Apple Film Production, TOR Film Studio
distribuzione/distribution
Movies Inspired
contatti/contacts
Movies Inspired
Stefano Jacono
stefano.jacono@moviesinspired.com
