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| Russian Lessons |
| Original title |
Russian Lessons |
| Type |
Documentaries |
| Director |
Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya |
| Short summary |
Russian Lessons covers the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008 and investigates Russia’s foreign policy stance under Prime Minister Putin.
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| Summary |
The film starts as a journey by the two director/protagonists, Olga and Andrei, one on each side of the frontline during the last year's Russian-Georgian war. A non-conventional deeply personal feature documentary that firmly establishes emotional contact with the audiences by depicting human drama, before coming up with political conclusions.
These emerge naturally and forcefully as the intercut double journey progresses.
Importantly, the film puts the recent war in the context of the post-Soviet history which has managed to keep its darkest pages from the international public's attention, despite dozens of relevant UN resolutions and OSCE conventions. At the same time as Milosevic was earning the reputation as the biggest evil in the post-communist world, a perfectly comparable - but perhaps even more cruel - campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing was taking place in parts of Georgia. |
| D.O.P |
Trond Tønder, Varlam Karchkhadze, Davit Asatiani |
| Editor |
Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya, Erik Andersson |
| Producer |
Torstein Grude, Olga Konskaya |
| Production company |
Piraya Film as | Kvitsøygata 25 | NO-4016 Stavanger | Tel (+47) 51 11 63 36 | Fax (+47) 51 11 63 37 |
| Co-producer |
Andrei Nekrasov |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (international) |
2010-01 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
OTHER |
| Colour |
Colour |
| Sound System |
Dolby SR |
| Length in min's |
111 |
| International sales |
Kudos Family AS, Kvitsøygata 25, 4014 Stavanger, Norway
tel +47 5112 3172, fax +47 5111 6337, mail@kudosfamily.com |
| Distributor (Norway only) |
Kudos Family AS, Kvitsøygata 25, 4014 Stavanger, Norway
tel +47 5112 3172, fax +47 5111 6337, mail@kudosfamily.com |
| Festival participation |
2010 Sundance Film Festival
2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival
2010 One World International Human Rights Film Festival, Prague
2010 Tampere Film Festival, Finland
2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival
2010 Signes de Nuit Film Festival, Paris, France
2010 San Francisco Int. Film Festival, USA
2010 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
2010 Internationale Münchner Filmwochen
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Director biography:
 Andrei Lvovich Nekrasov (b. 1958 in St Petersburg), studied acting and directing at the State Institute for Theater and Film in St Petersburg. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, and film at Bristol University Film School. In 1985, he assisted Andrei Tarkovsky during the filming and editing of The Sacrifice. Nekrasov then made several internationally coproduced documentaries and TV arts programs (notably A Russia of One's Own, Pasternak, The Prodigal Son, and Children's Stories: Chechnya). His first drama short, Springing Lenin (1993) won the UNESCO prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and in 1997 his first feature, Love Is As Strong as Death won the FIPRESCI prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg. The director’s second feature, Lubov and Other Nightmares (2001) won recognition at a great many of festivals all over the world (including Sundance and Berlin) and confirmed his status as a rebel among Russian filmmakers.
Andrei Nekrasov is also a playwright and a theater director. His German productions (of his own plays) include: Der Spieler (The Gambler) in Euro Theater Central in Bonn and Koenigsberg in the Volksbuehne Theatre in Berlin.
His last film, Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case presents interviews with assassinated former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Olga Konskaya (1964-2009)
This film is the directorial debut of the prominent film producer and human rights campaigner.
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