Ischeznuvshaya imperiya
The vanished empire
Moscow in 1973-74: Sergei, Stepan and Kostya, three young students, divide their time between lectures on Marxism-Leninism, amorous adventures, rock concerts and the black market, where Rolling Stones records are bought and sold.
Shakhnazarovs "Imperium" tells the story of how it was to grow up the Soviet Union: an intimate, soberly narrated account of a breathless life between real socialism, pseudo-western lifestyles and lofty dreams of the future. In the end Sergei and Stepan meet again thirty years on and agree on one thing: "The Soviet Union is our home".
35mm | Farbe / colour
Sergey Rokotov
Shandor Berkeshi
Vitaliy Roshchupkin
Lyudmila Kusakova
Konstantin Shevelev
Aleksandr Lyapin, Lidiya Milyuzina, Egor Baranovskiy, Ivan Kupreenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Olga Tumaykina, Vladimir Ilin, Tatyana Yakovenko, Yanina Kalganova, Vasili Shakhnazarov, Yekaterina Kasparova
Mosfilm Cinema Concern
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Karen Shakhnazarov - born 1952 in Krasnodar, USSR (now Russia). Studied until 1975 under Igor Talankin at The All-Russian State University of Cinematography in Moscow (VGIK). Shakhnazarov is a filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.
SHIRE SHAG, MAESTRO! (1975, short)
DOBRYAKI (1979)
MY IZ DZHAZA (1983)
ZIMNIY VECHER V GAGRAKH (1985)
KURER (1986)
GOROD ZERO (1988)
TSAREUBIYTSA (1991)
SNY (1993)
AMERIKANSKAYA DOCH (1995)
DEN POLNOLUNIYA (1998)
YADY, ILI VSEMIRNAYA ISTORIYA OTRAVLENIY (2001)
VSADNIK PO IMENI SMERT (2004)
PALATA NO 6 (2009)