Vasily Shukshin – an unusual and unique phenomenon in the culture of Russia. His works, based on deep moral issues, distinguishes indigenous knowledge of the national language and details of everyday life, multicolored emotional palette: from mild sadness and irony to the grotesque-comic colors, sincere love to the people and to the home country.
Shukshin heroes - people of the Russian village, with original characters, observant and sharp on language, with inescapable dream to change the world and persistent searches of meaning of the life.
It is in their "chudikah" sees Shukshin embodiment of high spirituality of the people, the root of his being. Through them appeals to our consciousness and suggests to search for answers to eternal questions.
Childhood Holidays (Prazdniki detstva) (Disk 1)
1981, 85 min.
One of the last books of Vasily Shukshin - the collection of stories "Ivan Popov from the childhood years", autobiographical in many ways, is the basis of the film, over the fate of a boy from the remote Altai region, about his contemporaries of the wartimes. The film is fulfilled with the feeling of love to the people and the homeland.
"...Now I think, that in the difficult, bitter times of our life, the joy - albeit small and infrequent - is experienced more sharply, more purely. It was the holidays that I care - they are preserved all his life afterwards. What better there's currently not…" (Vasily Shukshin)
Awards:
• XV All-Union Film Festival in Tallinn - the first prize and a diploma for the best film for children and young people, for the creators of the film, 1982
• USSR State Prize for the screenwriter and director R. Grigoryeva, Yuri Grigoryev, the cameraman N. Puchkov, the production designer G. Anfilova, the composer P. Chekalov and the actress L. Zajtsev, 1983
Special features:
• Soon on DVD
Interactive menu: Russian
Language(s): Russian (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Screen format: 4:3 (color)
DVD Region: 5
Happy-go-lucky (Pechki - lavochki) (Disk 2)
1972, 96 min.
Vasily Shukshin loved this film and considered it his best work. Similarly, their best roles played here Georgy Burkov (Thief), Vadim Zakharchenko (Fellow-traveler), Vsevolod Sanayev (Professor), Ivan Ryzhov (Train steward). The entire film is just an unsurpassable acting masterpiece!
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev (Vasily Shukshin), traveling with his wife (Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
The village life, with its people, songs and drinking party, was photographed almost in a documentary-film manner (the shooting took place in Shukshin’s homeland – the Altai Region), while the travel itself is packed with anecdotal, funny situations which provoke a lot of sympathy and even a slight feeling of sadness. Shukshin does not spare the comedy palette in portraying his character, even if empathizing with him. For, according to Shukshin, it is those Ivans who are the salt of the earth. The theme of a provincial guy in a big city is always interesting and, therefore, is a sure win, but the most precious thing in this never-aging film is the personality of the talented actor, writer and director Vasily Shukshin, hence the psychological depth in the presentation of the story.
QUOTES:
“The music didn’t play for long, the lame John’s dance was pretty short.”
“My nerves are as tight as a string! I’m afraid they may just burst like this:
bzzzz!!!”
“A harlot in pants and in a hat!”
“Banknotes! Who puts them in a suitcase?!”
“He was running up and down, raising a stink.”
Special features:
• Interview with actress Ye. Sanayeva
• Filmographies
• Photo album “In Memory of Vasily Shukshin: The Man”
• Soon on DVD
Interactive menu: English, Russian
Language(s): Russian (Dolby Digital 5.1), Russian (Mono)
Subtitles: English, Russian
Screen format: 16:9 (black/white)
DVD Region: 0
Hell's Bells! (Yolki-palki!..) (Disk 3)
1988 g., 85 min.
Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think he’s a bit nutty. And for a good reason: he’s constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, dreaming of world fame and looking down on the other inhabitants of this sinful earth. But no matter how hard he is looking, he can’t see where his happiness (that is, post-office employee Lyuba) lies…
Kolya Knyazev is a typical Shukshin weirdo with that characteristic for the writer’s heroes’ dream of changing the world and a stubborn search for the meaning of life. “Me-e-eaning!”, “What’s this all for? What for?”, “What’s happening to us?” – the questions Shukshin asked by his works were the same ones that he asked himself, as an artist and a citizen, and his readers and viewers. Will we, an audience of the next generation, be able to find answers to them?..
Quotes:
“A glass in the morning, and you’re free for the rest of the day.”
“I wince every time I remember it.”
“Oh, hi, my friend! Lend me a ruble till the world’s end.”
Special features:
• Interview with director S. Nikonenko
• Textual material about author V. Shukshin
• Filmographies
• Photo album “Actor Sergey Nikonenko
• Soon on DVD
Interactive menu: English, Russian
Language(s): Russian (Dolby Digital 5.1), Russian (Mono)
Subtitles: English, Russian
Screen format: 4:3 (color)
DVD Region: 0
Vasilij SHukshin – yavlenie unikalnoe, isklyuchitelnoe po masshtabu v rossijskoj kulture. Ego proizvedeniya, osnovannye na glubokoj nravstvennoj problematike, otlichaet iskonnoe znanie natsionalnogo yazyka i detalej byta, mnogotsvete emotsionalnoj palitry: ot legkoj grusti i ironii do groteskno-komicheskih krasok, iskrennyaya lyubov k lyudyam, k zemle.
Geroi SHukshina - lyudi rossijskoj derevni, so svoeobraznymi harakterami, nablyudatelnye i ostrye na yazyk, s neizbyvnoj mechtoj izmenit mir i upornymi poiskami smysla zhizni. Imenno v svoih «chudikah» vidit SHukshin voploschenie vysokoj duhovnosti naroda, koren ego bytiya. Imenno cherez nih vzyvaet k nashemu samosoznaniyu i predlagaet iskat otvety na vechnye voprosy.
Prazdniki detstva (Disk 1)
1981 g., 85 min.
Hudozhestvennyj kinofilm
Odna iz poslednih knig Vasiliya SHukshina – sbornik rasskazov «Iz detskih let Ivana Popova», vo mnogom avtobiograficheskaya, legla v osnovu filma, rasskazyvayuschego o sudbe malchika iz dalekogo altajskogo kraya, o ego sverstnikah voennoj pory. Kartina pronizana chuvstvom lyubvi k lyudyam, k zemle.
«…ya teper dogadyvayus, chto v trudnuyu, gorkuyu poru nashej zhizni radost – pust malenkaya, redkaya – perezhivaetsya ostree, chische. Eto byli prazdniki, kotorye ya beregu – oni sami sberegayutsya vsyu zhizn potom. Luchshego poka ne bylo…» (Vasilij SHukshin)
Nagrady:
• XV VKF v Talline – Pervyj priz i diplom za luchshij film dlya detej i yunoshestva tvorcheskomu kollektivu filma, 1982
• Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR avtoram stsenariya i rezhisseram R. Grigorevoj, YU. Grigorevu, operatoru N. Puchkovu, hudozhniku G. Anfilovoj, kompozitoru P. CHekalovu, aktrise L. Zajtsevoj, 1983
Dopolnitelnyj materialy (Bonus-trek):
• Smotrite na DVD
Film - cherno-tsvetnoj
Interaktivnoe menyu: Russkij
Zvukovye versii: Russkij (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Format ekrana: 4:3
DVD region: 5
Pechki - lavochki (Disk 2)
1972 g., 96 min.
Hudozhestvennyj kinofilm
Vasilij SHukshin lyubil etot film i schital luchshej svoej rabotoj. Svoi luchshie roli sygrali zdes Georgij Burkov (vor), Vadim Zaharchenko (poputchik), Vsevolod Sanaev (professor), Ivan Ryzhov (provodnik). Ves film – neprevzojdennyj akterskij benefis!
Grustnaya i smeshnaya istoriya o poezdke sibirskogo traktorista Ivana Rastorgueva (Vasilij SHukshin) vmeste s zhenoj (Lidiya Fedoseeva-SHukshina) na kurort k CHernomu moryu i o pervom v ih zhizni poseschenii Moskvy.
Derevenskij byt, lyudi, pesni, vypivon snyaty prakticheski v dokumentalnoj manere (s'emki prohodili na rodine SHukshina – v Altajskom krae), a samo puteshestvie nasyscheno anekdoticheski smeshnymi, no v to zhe vremya vyzyvayuschimi simpatiyu, i dazhe legkuyu grust situatsiyami. SHukshin ne zhaleet komedijnyh krasok v obrisovke svoego geroya, no i sochuvstvuet emu. Ved imenno v takih ivanah, po SHukshinu, koren bytiya. Tema provintsiala v bolshom gorode vsegda interesna, a potomu besproigryshna, no glavnoe v etoj nestareyuschej kartine - lichnost talantlivogo aktera, pisatelya i rezhissera Vasiliya SHukshina i otsyuda psihologicheskaya glubina v podache rasskaza.
TSITATY:
«Nedolgo muzyka igrala, nedolgo fraer tantseval»
«Nervy kak struny natyanuty! Boyus, chto odnazhdy porvutsya – vot tak: dzynnn!!!»
«Profursetka v shtanah i v shlyape!»
«Kipyury, kto zhe ih syuda kladet!»
«Begal tut, ikru metal»
Dopolnitelnyj materialy (Bonus-trek):
• Intrvyu s aktrisoj E. Sanaevoj
• Filmografii
• Fotoalbom «Pamyati Vasiliya SHukshina: CHelovek»
• Smotrite na DVD
Film - cherno-belyj
Interaktivnoe menyu: Anglijskij, Russkij
Zvukovye versii: Russkij (Dolby Digital 5.1), Russkij (Mono)
Subtitrovye versii: Anglijskij, Russkij
Format ekrana: 16:9
DVD region: 0
YOlki - Palki!.. (Disk 3)
1988 g., 85 min.
Hudozhestvennyj kinofilm
Nikolaj Knyazev rabotaet v masterskoj po remontu televizorov. Bog dal emu zolotye ruki i serdtse, no bolshinstvo zemlyakov schitayut ego slegka choknutym. Esche by: konstruiruet vechnyj dvigatel, godami sochinyaet filosofskij traktat, mechtaet o mirovoj slave i glyadit svysoka na prochih obitatelej greshnoj zemli. Glyadit-glyadit, a schastya-to svoego (v litse rabotnitsy pochty Lyuby) ne vidit…
Kolya Knyazev – tipichnyj shukshinskij chudik so svojstvennoj geroyam pisatelya neizbyvnoj mechtoj izmenit mir i upornymi poiskami smysla zhizni. «Smy-y-sl! », «A zachem vse, zachem? », «CHto s nami proishodit? » - voprosy, kotorye zadaval SHukshin svoimi proizvedeniyami, byli ego voprosami k samomu sebe kak hudozhniku i grazhdaninu, k chitatelyam i zritelyam. Najdem li my, zriteli drugogo pokoleniya, otvety na nih?..
TSITATY:
«S utra stakan – i tselyj den svoboden»
«Kak vspomnyu, tak vzdrognu»
«Zdorovo! Daj rubl do tridtsat vtorogo»
Dopolnitelnye materialy (Bonus-trek):
• Intervyu s rezhisserom S. Nikonenko
• Tekstovyj material o pisatele V. SHukshine
• Filmografii
• Fotoalbom «Akter Sergej Nikonenko»
• Smotrite na DVD
Film - tsvetnoj
Interaktivnoe menyu: Anglijskij, Russkij
Zvukovye versii: Russkij (Dolby Digital 5.1), Russkij (Mono)
Subtitrovye versii: Anglijskij, Russkij
Format ekrana: 4:3
DVD region: 0
