Réalisation:
Andrei ZagdanskyScénario:
Andrei ZagdanskyPhotographie:
Vladimir GuevskiyActeurs·trices:
Leonid Brezhnev (i.a.), Fidel Castro (i.a.), Simone de Beauvoir (i.a.), Gerald Ford (i.a.), Yuri Gagarin (i.a.), Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (i.a.), Erich Honecker (i.a.) (plus)Résumés(1)
Parallel to more recent Russian history, Andrei Zagdansky tells us about the life of his father, Evgeni, who was born between the World Wars and who, as a young man aged 25, saw how the Nazis reduced his home city of Kiev to rubble. Evgeni left, returning years later with his family. Together with a subtle soundtrack, this rich montage of found footage, archive material and home movies evokes a world subject to radical change. Zagdansky's mother was what the Soviets at the time called a "cosmopolitan" - in other words a Jew, and a fact that was better to keep to yourself. The family did not live according to the Jewish laws and Andrei was not circumcised. After leaving the army in the 1950s, his father went to work in a film studio, making popular science films. While Evgeni was focusing on his career and Andrei and his sister were being brought up by their mother, the Soviet Union was "de-Stalinized" by Nikita Khrushchev, and Kiev received visits from important international political figures, artists and scientists. Not only does the son look back in this film on the life of his father; the father also writes letters to his son, who has left for America, full of personal reflections on the changing times and their life together, and concerns for his wellbeing. Somewhat bitterly, Evgeni concludes that, in spite of the vast physical distance between them, they have never been so close. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Leonid Brezhnev (i.a.)
Empire russe
Meilleurs films :
JFK (1991)
Underground (1995)
Executive Action (1973)
Fidel Castro (i.a.)
Cuba
Meilleurs films :
Papa (2015) - i.a.
The Eichmann Show (2015) (téléfilm) - i.a.
Simone de Beauvoir (i.a.)
France
Gerald Ford (i.a.)
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Forrest Gump (1994)
Les Hommes du président (1976) - i.a.
Frost/Nixon, l’heure de vérité (2008)
Yuri Gagarin (i.a.)
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
L´Etoffe des héros (1983)
Gagarin: Pěrvyj v kosmose (2013) - i.a.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (i.a.)
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
Si loin, si proche (1993)
Erich Honecker (i.a.)
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
Good Bye, Lenin ! (2003)
Friendship! (2010)
Nikita Khrushchev (i.a.)
Empire russe
Meilleurs films :
Velikij polkovoděc Georgij Žukov (1995) - i.a.
Agents très spéciaux - Code U.N.C.L.E (2015) - i.a.
Yves Montand (i.a.)
Italie
Meilleurs films :
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon des sources (1986)
Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Richard Nixon (i.a.)
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
American Gangster (2007) - i.a.
Les Doors (1991) - i.a.
Les Hommes du président (1976) - i.a.
Rudolf Nureyev (i.a.)
Union soviétique
Sergei Parajanov (i.a.)
Union soviétique
Jean-Paul Sartre (i.a.)
France
Simone Signoret (i.a.)
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
L'Aveu (1970)
Le Chat (1971)
Compartiment tueurs (1965)
Aleksandr Gelman (narrateur)
Andrei Zagdansky (narrateur)
Union soviétique