Konstantin Lopushansky biography

Konstantin Lopushansky - biography, news, personal life Age: 77 Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky. Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, producer. People's Artist of the Russian Federation Father - Sergey Timofeevich Lopushansky mind. Mother - Sofia Petrovna Lopushanskaya, Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Honored Science of the Russian Federation, his childhood passed in Kazan, where parents came to teach after the end of the Moscow State University.

He was engaged in music. After graduating from the Kazan Conservatory in the violin class, he studied at the Leningrad State Conservatory at the faculty of musical directing, the Department of Opera Directs. Received a degree of candidate of art history dissertation “Russian musical and performing aesthetics of the second quarter of the XIX century. The history of performing art, an editor in the Leningrad Academic Small Opera Theater, worked as a teacher of the Kazan and Leningrad Conservatory.

In the year he graduated from the highest courses of screenwriters and directors, directorial department, workshop of Emil Lotyan. The thesis - a short film “Solo” - was noted by critics as the best film about the blockade, the protagonist was played by Nikolai Grinko. He was an assistant on the set of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”. He considers himself a student of Andrei Tarkovsky, who consistently conducts the spiritual and aesthetic principles of the master in his work.

Since the year - the director of the film studio "Lenfilm". The first full -length film of Konstantin Lopushansky “Letters of a Dead Man” was an event. The gloomy, complicated anti -utopia on the consequences of the nuclear war had a box office of 9.1 million. The picture was consonant with the time after the tragedy in Chernobyl. The director himself said: “Any artistic work is the cast of the author’s soul.

The shot, written carries the "birthmarks" of the consciousness that created it, philosophical ideas, personal style. A good psychologist or just a deep spectator can find out not the most characteristic psychological portrait in childhood, while my grandfather and grandmother in Dnepropetrovsk, saw how a huge underground film storage appeared near the house, the children climbed there, lit it, and this was all possible.

And since the output was narrow, the explosion mushroom rose very high and became like nuclear. And since it was in the city with a famous missile plant, and in it in those days everyone was preparing for a normal nuclear war, we children thought: it began! I am a child of my time, which grew under a ladder sword tomorrow able to stiffen the end of the world.

We treated this differently, but we grew up with this. Bomb shelters were built before our eyes, we knew where they were and understood why. The stylistics of all this, oddly enough, attracted. The greenish-yellow posters on civil defense with people in gas masks were in a strange way by Bosch. This all settled in consciousness. The artist intuitively understands: what the soul lies to, which way the hand writes, there is “your” theme.

Of course, we must strive for diversity, but if you rarely shoot a movie, like me, then, of course, you choose the most-most-most from your plans. And the "most-most" is still in line with the main line of creativity. " The second full -length film - “Museum Visitor” Coproduction with Germany and Switzerland - a religious parable about the search for truth and meaning, about sacrifice and fanaticism, about the eternal confrontation of good and evil.

In this film, the director acted not only as a thoughtful and honest author, who was going to the end, but also as a professional who was able to cope with a complex staging and moral and ethical task in the episodes with the mass, more than a thousand real crazy people were shot. The tape of the year "Russian Symphony" marked a new stage in the work of the director.

The world premiere took place at the MKF in Montreal in September. But there were already fewer international awards, in fact, only the prize of the ecumenical jury in the Berlin MKF. The director recalled: “At one time, the great Alexei German, looking at my“ Russian Symphony ”said:“ Well, you smeared yourself! In the film, the main character says to himself: “I am a Russian intellectual, the heir to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky”, and the whole picture is, in fact, an unpleasant statement about how the intelligentsia behaved during our last revolution of the 10ths.

In my opinion, then these people committed strange acts. But talking about the intelligentsia or people as a whole is such a communist approach. It is not characteristic of me. Rather, I believe that the intelligentsia - as a quintessence of culture - is more responsible for their actions than those who do not have such a powerful intelligence. ” Director of Proline Film Andrei Sigle.

Konstantin Lopushansky is one of the few Russian directors, in relation to which the concept of “author's cinema” is applicable. Calling himself “a convinced and unprincipled adherent of total authorship”, Lopushansky does not accept a compromise in any form and, above all, in relation to himself.He sets himself the most difficult artistic tasks, each of his film is evidence of intellectual labor and deep personal experiences.

The author of “Essays on the history of Russian musical and critical thought. The actual member of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts "Nika". In May, the director completed the work on the film "Ugly Swans" according to the story of the Strugatsky brothers. In the year he presented the film “Role” according to his own scenario, written together with Pavel Finn.

The film takes place during the Civil War. The main role in the picture was played by actor Maxim Sukhanov. The premiere of the film took place as part of the competitive program of the Moscow International Film Festival in late June. In M, he presented the social drama “Through black glass” - the story of the blind girl, whose fate presents a unique chance. A wealthy man is ready to give her vision if she blindly becomes his wife.

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