2-ASSA-2 Russia
2009, 118min.
Prod.: Sergey Solovyov, Oleg Urushev, Script/Dir.: Sergey Solovyov, Dir. of Phot.: Yuriy Klimenko, Compos.: Sergey Shnurov, Ekaterina Volkova, Anna Solovyova, Boris Grebenshikov, Prod. Design: Sergey Ivanov, Vera Zelinskaya, Sound: Pavel Ivushkin Edit.: Rinat Khalilullin.
Cast: Tatyana Drubich, Sergey Makovetsky, Anna Solovyova, Sergey Shnurov, Yuriy Bashmet, Sergey Bugaev, Ekaterina Volkova, Alexander Bashirov, Olesya Sudzilovskaya.
This distinctive continuation of the film Assa, which was screened in 1987 and almost immediately became an “adored” film, is essentially a lyrical musical thriller. As in the first film, here too the fates of the protagonists are tragically intertwined: the complicated, partially criminal and partially psychological intrigue drives the protagonists. However, 2-Assa-2 is primarily about the changes that took place over the past 20 years – the “changes” that the characters of Assa were dreaming about. Today the dreams have turned into a reality but one cannot say definitely whether they are positive or negative. In parallel with the main action, almost all the characters are involved in the shooting of Anna Karenina, where Alika Aldanova, a protagonist of Assa, who has become an actress, stars as Anna. The film being shot is yet another protagonist of the plot of 2-Assa-2. In fact, these two films, 2-Assa-2 and Anna Karenina, make a peculiar cinematographic dialog.
Production Company
Cinema Line
Ugra-film
| Solovyov, Sergei Sergei Solovyov (1944, Kem, Autonomous Soviet Republic of Karelia, USSR)
In 1968 graduated from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), Directing Faculty (M. Romm’s studio). From 1967 to 1987 was a film director at Mosfilm Studio; since 1987 has been the managing director of Krug Studio, and later became its Chairman of the Board. In the early 1990s staged Uncle Vanya (Maly Theatre) and The Seagull (Taganka Theatre). Now is lecturer and professor at Moscow Film Institute.. Publishes articles in the press, is author and the host of TV programs on the past and the present of the Russian cinema. People's Artist of Russia Sergey, Solovyov is the laureate of international and Russian film festivals, and is awarded with the USSR State Prize.
Filmography
Look at the Face (1963), Out of Idleness (1970), Yegor Bulychov and the Others (1971), The Postmaster (1972), One Hundred Day after Childhood (1975), Melodies of a White Night (1976), The Rescuer (1980), Direct Heiress (1982), The Chosen Ones (1983), Someone Else’s White and the Sparkled (1986), Assa (1987), Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, Red Rose Is an Emblem of Love (1989), House under the Starry Skies (1991), The Three Sisters (1994), The Tender Age (2000), About Love (2003), Anna Karenina (2009), 2-Assa-2 (2009), Classmates (2010)
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