Vocal ParallelsKazakhstan
2005, 65min.
 Script.: Rustam Khamdamov, Renata Litvinova, Dir./Cost design: Rustam Khamdamov, Dir. of Phot.: Rifkat Ibragimov, Sergey Mokritsky, Compos.: Vladimir Martynov, Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Mikhail Glinka, Robert Schumann, Sound: Mikhail Reznichenko, Edit.: Irakly Kvirikadze, Prod.: Rustam Khamdamov, Galina Kuzembaeva.
Cast: Renata Litvinova, Eric Kurmangaliev, Araksia Datvian, Roza Dzhamanova, Bibigul Tuligenova.
Vocal Erik Kurmangaliev, Araksia Datvian, Roza Dzhamanova, Bibigul Tuligenova.
A “film-concert” that revives a genre vastly popular in the era of Stalin. His highly entertaining version offers a playfully surreal round of arias by Verdi, Puccini, Glinka and other composers, performed by former stars of Soviet opera in locations like an abandoned factory, a nomad’s hut, or somewhere in the Kazakh steppes. These operatic fragments are presented by mistress of ceremonies Renata Litvinova – a post-Soviet Venus in Furs who makes melancholy comments about the decline of imperial grandeur. The film derives its magic from the ingenious interplay of light and colour, from absurd comedy and the extravagant costumes. | Khamdamov, Rustam  Born 24.05.1944, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Artist, director, laureate of “Triumph” and “Nation’s Cultural Treasure” awards. Graduated from the VGIK, direction faculty (1969, G. Chukhray’s workshop). At the beginning of the 90-s he lived in France on the invitation of Paris mayor, at the present lives in Moscow. The artist’s pictures were bought and now demonstrated by galleries of Paris, London and private collections. An outstanding expert of the material culture and an original artist, he made drafts for decorations ordered by some European haute couture and pret-a porte houses, drafts of jewelry for the “Russian World Gallery” in USA, costumes for the theatrical projects, including The Gull by Andrey Konchalovsky (2004). First directorial feature of him, a student work My Heart’s in the Highlands, became a world cinema event and excited Fellini and Antonioni. The second wasn’t finished and the third – Anna Karamazof f- was premiered in Cannesin the main competition program and received the most enthusiastic and contradictory press.
Filmography
My Heart Is in the Highlands (1967), Accident Elations (Nechayannye radosti 1974, not finished), Anna Karamazova (1991), Vocal Parallels (Vokaldy paralelder, 2005).
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