Swallows Have Arrived Russia
2006, 90min.
Prod./Dir.: Aslan Galasov, Script: Irlan Khugaev, Aslan Galasov, Dir. of Phot.: Leonid Deryagin, Anna Zabludovskaya, Compos.: Shirvani Chalaev, Sound: Alexander Kamaldinov, Prod Design.: Tigran Kaitmasov, Edit.: Olga Shevchenko, Vitaliy Zikhlinskiy.
Cast: Irlan Khugaev, Arthur Khatagov, Vyacheslav Guriev.
Film comes from a literary tradition of the Decadence and refers to such books as Stivenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide and Oscar Wilde’s The portrait of Dorian Grey. The main character is a university professor of literature and at the same time a hardcore drug addict, a regular bottom dweller of the city. The story is told by the hero himself. His literary inclinations bring the lyricism and the intimacy of a personal diary into his narration, while his scholarly mindset gives it the distance and the cold detail of a documentary. It is the history of the decease, watched and described by the addict himself.
| Galasov, AslanAslan Galasov (born 1967, Vladikavkaz)
Graduated from the State University in Literature and Linguistics. Later he studied at Moscow State University, and then at American University in Washington DC where he received the Master’s degree in Arts and Literature. He attended courses in the Theory of Film and in the Italian and French cinema. He has entered the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK). |
