three. three. mediocre four year media drug free media oh god our cheap drugs tom. and now we're here in moscow this is all to see germany gives the go ahead for a hugely inflated year as a bailout fund to sit down and tease two hundred eleven billion euros worth of loans to prop up its currency colleagues is griese tries to convince the e.u. and i.m.f. to release more emergency cash. so he and his breakaway kossovo a teetering on the brink of boiling over after checkpoint clashes russians warning nato just steer clear of taking sides in further inflaming the cold plates on your minds reinforced its presence of the northern border with. china heads for the

happens this is the countries on the benches spacelab which norfolk a minute ago the city should be used at beijing's presence among the stalls and that's the rule says ahead of beijing for its own space station. next i'll go to north sits down with russia's promising director alexander for his movie files scoop the top prize of this is venice film the golden line. oh. hello again to walk and to spotlight the interview show on alex's. novel today my guest is aleksandr the so called are joining us from st peter's. this year's event is still first of all has been a great success traditionally the movie called fast directed last quarter was

awarded the gold watch and the festival's growth rate critics say that's a sign of the industry's revival but the hero the self is not so optimist this is a horror of things the logistics of filmmaking in russia still leaves much to be desired and less the support of his or against. outside so girl this year's biggest victor at the venice film festival alexander said group had to overcome much misunderstanding and usually career student films were mostly not accepted by his teachers at the state film school in moscow and his early works were banned by soviet censors what helped secure of move on then was support from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time under return of ski the end of the nineteen eighties and gorbachev zero the missouri rui force of color of

whose films were finally released to receive the claim both at home and abroad a filmmaker could finally quench his thirst for work make and several films a year both beaches and documentaries secure of zin personally stick works marked by a philosophical approach to history and human nature one million lots of intellectuals will guide one of the filmmakers trademarks is to peer ensued and there are people in his fiction films support. it is famous for experimenting with film language he's russian orc became a sensation in two thousand and two but it was made in this single ninety six minute long shot in the nineteen ninety six worked on his famous to troll exploring the effects of the war on one's personality the first three films were biographies of some of the most powerful political leaders of the twentieth century then and hirohito. the force of the troll would you post

broach the core of his biggest cinematographic who are the golden lion of the venice film festival. mr secure a friend thank you very much for joining us and good afternoon and a warm welcome from st petersburg. first of all i would like to congratulate you on the gold line award for the it's a great achievement for the russian filmmaking industry as well as for you personally. but before we start discussing the warden events that surrounded i would like you to comment on the latest news of the russian filmmaking community or news channel after all so what's your take on this scandal around russia speak for the can you wards i mean by any q. to me i'll come off. after the official vote the chairman of russia's oscar

community or refused to sign the papers. how can that happen. what's your view on that but you should. i don't have an opinion on this issue really i wasn't aware of it before i saw it in the newspapers i didn't know about russia's nominating a movie for an oscar either i read about it later also in the newspapers and heard about it on the radio. i think what's happened is all down to how human nature decisions are taken by humans. must have been a personal conflict. of course anyway why do you think me isn't fit to run for an oscar we are aware of stereotypes the americans have of russia we often know the artistic taste of the academy members. film may well be the right choice for an oscar but why should european style serious movies of humanitarian carol to compete

for what is basically a commercial prize. over all this story didn't really stir any emotions in me. there was a play this for mr sekulow of maybe this is the way it should be director of let american show off it was against the nomination of this film argued primarily that this film by mikhail cough was actually a port overlords the movie just one of the ports but mr sokurov the film that earned you the golden lion is also a part of your. which includes smaller tourists in the sun and leslie foster and now this fourth and last quarter receives the board do you regard your false there's a need to plan and piece or a part of the. i mean that if the latter is true then the viewers who have not seen the previous ports will have to watch all of them first before seeing faults. well no it's a separate film each of the pause has its own value and leads

a separate life but that's how it was the general idea behind the technology is humanitarian and the not quite cinematic graphic. or the roots of the method i employed i mean such fundamental studies could be traced back to literature. it's not typical of cinematography neither russia nor international it may as well be a unique case the first case of such an in-depth study. as a director i cannot imagine that it would be possible to produce small of taurus or the sun and keep them on the shelf during all these years waiting for files to come out finalist is a separate film but you can also view it as the last chapter of the tetralogy. well it's not the first time we've talked to you in over the years i have come to know you a bit what i mean is that i know you don't like the high life it's hard to imagine

your magazine's cover is story gossip columns but then all of a sudden your the talk of the town in the first of all zero the gold line in your hands standing right there in the center of that celeb gathering what did you feel at the moment. well not much i'm afraid which would be similar to what you have described because when alex television channels broadcast the news. i was still in venice. but then i travelled back to st petersburg and wasn't very much affected by the whole thing. the only reason i felt that something really happened was a string of phone calls with congratulations from my friends relatives acquaintances and colleagues whom i deal in love. but it's actually not the first of my words i have three vatican awards in my movies regularly receive prizes you

know it's not usually reported but i like. that's the conditions i work in. here part of my job is to take part in festivals a procedure i don't quite like either in order to help my movies make their first steps for me a festival is not a competition i have always been against competition the contemporary movie making industry doesn't offer other options that would be as efficient money wise to present your own movie to all the international cinematography community as fast holds. the budgets for my movies do not include funds for promotion or advertising not a single cent by the way we have a deficit budget for found with only one copy printed so far. at the moment we don't really know how to show to russian viewers so i mean you know it's my job i mean it's like on the new year's eve i know that the next day on the first of january things will still be the same i know for sure. awards are only important

because they encourage my friends and colleagues who helped me make the movie and maybe they were happier about it than me everybody knows that you don't like film festivals you don't like the idea of a competition held among artists as if they were athletes but you can't deny that film festivals are essential for the development of the film industry in a filmmaker's so you're kind of left in between two cheers right you don't know whether you are against film festivals or for them right can you say definitely was better to abolish them or to let them. know film festivals held in the form of films show why the one in venice are absolutely necessary it can be otherwise well it is wrong to hold film festivals as a competition if you're proud of them with any first of all features both renowned and experienced directors who do have a name in the film industry and beginners. and we who have. long been part of the

cinema world are an obstacle for the newcomers the young artists who longed for awards attention recognition and fame far more than we did it would take me i don't need any of these because i have grown out of this and when i really needed such things there were none today i realize that appreciation and attention as well as film distribution and television time i needed badly by young film directors and part of the audience needs all this as well we need a renewal we should give young people a chance this is not only true for films a film festival organizers a film show like the venice film festival and unlike cans of berlin that hold a film contest a kind of rivalry is the most reasonable and justified type of film festival as the film competitions they should be abolished i have contacted the organizers of all

the biggest film festivals and have been telling them for a number of years that the system of film competition has no future but they won't be making money without a competition because it's basically the competitive part of the first of all attracts people attract so what he means fans and sponsors i'm not sure. mr socor of new films attract people this is what attracts people new fields new missions behalves but not the competition itself it is the desire and the opportunity to see new films that drives thousands to the festivals including the press and television says alexander the poor forward leaning russian film director spotlight surely brad after a break so stay with us. download the official antti allocation is your only phone only pod touch from the point you

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welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is alex sounded a quarter of the award winning russian film director i listen to go mr sykora after you won the gold mine award you said in one of your first interviews following the event i followed the current form of existence of the russian filmmaking industry is fundamentally wrong and should be changed immediately and what did you mean for what is wrong in particular with the russian filmmaking industry. as i see it the reporter has twisted my words

a bit the quote is not accurate camps and then it has changed it i was referring exclusively to the way fans are distributed in the more than a film industry if the government finances film production as an art as a type of culture i emphasize no type of commercial special attention should be paid to the issue of fun distribution the way funds are distributed to days totally unacceptable those funds are basically pocketed by a few dealing people in moscow this devilish minto a film funded not foster film production growth there has been only a couple of deb years in the country and all last year's films the films that were produced after the reform after the responsibility for fun distribution was taken away from the ministry of culture so bad that no t.v. channel not even channel one that is known for favoring commercial films will ever show that the way funds are being distributed is nothing but embezzle meant plain and simple. you have been working in the west a lot so can you point out

a country that could become a model for russia say the united states germany or france. the german model is really good but excessively bureaucratized i remember german t.v. reporters asking me in venice why my film was not financed from german funds among others. but i told them that the procedure is too complicated in germany you have to go from province to province collecting those contributions in tiny bits. fifty thousand euros here twenty thousand years there the french model could feed the russian system best of all. the french have a transparent and democratic procedure for applying for government support followed by an equally transparent and democratic discussion of all strong and weak sides of the film project the director is seeking government funds for we used to have something very similar at the time when the russian ministry of culture managed

ponderous tribulation then the system was changed. the old procedure did have certain drawbacks of course but anyway it has been abandoned that there's a possibility was transferred to a group of i don't know whose but it has been going on from bad to worse ever since we must introduce an absolute was apparent form of fund handling because it is absolutely necessary it is necessary wherever government funds are distributed all that is needed to accomplish this is integrity and decency integrity and decency that's all and nothing else but i think russia is now facing a severe lack of integrity and decency fished. the core of you have been in the east in quite a lot with the authorities for some time now so i remember that in august you urged prime minister putin receive your secure use length film from privatization why can't one film be privatized is it because there were no decent people left who

could manage it. and did mr react to your request in any way. my answer to that will be clear and simple the management model that would have evolved had len film been privatized would have led to a situation where russia a vast country and the people clearly predisposed towards cinematography. in beautiful we might have no administrative talent but we have a great talent for cinematography and sciences we are great writers and great composers but the liquidation of landfill have led to monopoly russia would only have to studios left. and the russian world studios. where would directors who did not fit into the aesthetic and humanitarian format of those studios go. to stick environment should present as many creative

habits as many production opportunities as possible. that is what makes a good artistic environment the more studios we have. there small independent artists would be able to realize their creative ideas. i would never be able to direct anything at film there. the russian world studios. have never produced my fast. directors especially young directors need as many alternatives as they can have that most young directors would not be able to take off by the russian world studios. we do need landfill. because we need a humanitarian studio. you have been seeing me your recent interviews

grudgingly would say that you were just not getting a response in russia. you see that for most of your films are not screened in russia and probably never will be. i don't have your exact quote but that's the essence of it how do you explain the difference the maturity of the russian public treats you with is it the way film distribution works or doesn't have to do with viewers becoming less cultured in general. i have to say first and foremost the cultural landscape in russia has been changing ever since social and political changes began in our society. i would say that the average cultural level in our society is the same as it was in nine hundred twenty nine zero nine hundred thirty. compared to the soviet period it is a sign that society on the whole has degraded this is my opinion of. the kind of

films i make and not just to me there are other very notable directors in russia but films of this sort have always been watched by university students specialists and educated classes in general. russian cause students are in a very difficult situation these days. it is essentially an environment devoid of humanitarian values. the number of specialists has greatly diminished as most of the factories and research centers have been shut down most of those people no longer interested in culture and life in general some of them have other interests . culture is really struggling these days everywhere and the old world i'm not talking about the united states. there is a real battle going on between consumerism and spirituality humanitarian. well yes it is a real war it is happening in russia as well. and of course there is no national

distribution and it is no wonder that all movies are distributed by one or two western owned companies there is no independent distribution at all vs li no national all municipal distribution system like they have in germany for example i do not see the merging in the near future either that of course there is no room for me in the system but i think group should be made since i make most of my films both documentaries and fiction with government funds i am obliged to present my films to the audience the taxpayer should see where their money goes to them this is the general situation and should be changed. it can be changed. but mr sekulow judging by the response your films have attracted in the united states when you say that the intellectual level of the american people is

not much higher absolute and out in more than russia. there are certain problems over there too where the general cultural level of the population is undoubtedly higher than in russia unfortunately you know as a citizen of russia i'm saying this with a heavy heart i think this is one of the principal losses the post perestroika era inflicted they were mostly losses in the sphere of culture and huge global losses too of course the cultural level in the us is higher and they have alternative ways of self-expression and alternative systems of distribution. do you think these losses were natural and inevitable when such a huge lead to capitalism was performed is the evil of cultural regression unavoidable when societies restructured or not even. this is a very important question and i think those are partially inevitable but they're also very much the result of the revolutionary changes which have brought russia to

the state it is into day being led and masterminded mainly by humanists intellectuals by scholars who left the field they had belonged to and with drew attention an effort which impair the development of humanities and arts and lowered the quality of work in these fields the right moment to prevent trouble was missed today we're trying to catch up with what was lost back then the struggle for landfill where leading today is an example of that we were able to persuade the prime minister that we should not snap decisions on issues of privatization and this is encouraging and shows we should continue winning back what was lost in the past the russian capitalism can't be trusted that it is an old creature with only a stomach and erect no soul no heart or head whatsoever we just don't see all these organs how can we trust these beasts this semi beast it will nest tecate and digest

everything it gets we have to be more careful culture must be a priority and should always come first culture is the ultimate goal of a nation's existence they can be no other goals but culture development is not only true for russia it is true for all the other nations europeans are facing same problems as russia and all their recessions and deadlocks both social and economic can be traced back to the oblivion the cultural sphere has fallen in or at my last question if you call yourself a literature person what one often happens these days is say when my son i ask in carrier in one piece and he says i watched a movie have you read of i watched a movie this tendency to produce screen versions of books better literature because it steals the wants of converts and reducing juvie. worse but that's a very important question and it's cinema source sport that's something that touches is very cool because there is no way there can be serious cinema without

literature and the only thing i can see is that the purpose of my work when i make films based on some profound literature sources is to inspire the viewers to go and read the book after they have watched the film thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was alexander supporter of award winning russian filmmaker with joining me from st petersburg and that's it for now from all of us here spotlight we'll be back with you until then stay on russia today and take.

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