Ward No. 6  Russia
2009, 83min.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov with the participation of Alexander Gornovsky, Script: Alexander Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov, Story by: Anton Chekhov, Director of Photography: Alexander Kuznetsov, Composer: Yevgeni Kadimsky, Prod.Design: Lyudmila Kusakova, Sound: Gulsara Mukataeva
Editor: Irina Kozhemyakina
Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, Alexey Vertkov, Alexander Pankratov-Chyorny, Evgeny Stychkin, Victor Solovyev, Alexey Zharkov, Albina Evtushevskaya
The film is a screen version of the mysterious, paradoxical and disturbing story by Chekhov, which, in all honesty, can be called the most pessimistic and also the most life-asserting work of the author. The story is based on a real-life incident and focuses on the head doctor of an asylum who winds up a patient in it. Lonely, estranged, reflecting, Doctor Andrey Ragin is one of the prominent characters in the works of Chekhov – and the entire world literature of the 20th century. Preserving the story-line the authors deliberately move the scene into the present. The film was shot in a real asylum, in a novel semi-documentary manner.
Awards
Silver St. George/Best Actor (Moscow IFF, 2009), Directors' Week Special Jury Award (Fantasporto IFF, 2010)
Production Company
Mosfilm Cinema Concern
1 Mosfilmovskaya Street
119991 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: (7499 1439785)
Fax: (7499 7059303)
Email: referent@mosfilm.ru
| Shakhnazarov, Karen Karen Shakhnazarov (born 1952, Krasnodar, Russia)
Film director, scriptwriter, producer, prose writer. In 1975 graduated from All-Russian State Institute of Cinema (VGIK), where he studied Film Directing in Igor Talankin’s studio. Since 1976 he has been directing films at Mosfilm Studio. Since 1987 he has been the Art Director of Artistic Association Start (renamed into Courier Studio in 1990) of Mosfilm. Since 1991 he has been the Art Director and Chairman of the Board of Courier Studio of the Mosfilm Cinema Corporation. Since 1998 he has been the General Director of the Corporation Mosfilm. Under his management the principal film studio of Russia overcame the deep crisis of the nineties and grew into Europe’s largest and unique film production complex. The films directed by Karen Shakhnazarov were presented at many prestigious international film festivals and won over 20 awards.
Filmography
With a Wide Step, Maestro (1975), On the School Path (1977), The Kind-Hearted Ones (1979), Ladies Ask the Gentlemen (1980), Jazzmen (1983), A Winter Night in Gagra (1985), Courier (1986), The Town of Zero (1988), Assassin (USSR – Great Britain) (1991), The Dreams (1993), American Daughter (1995), The Day of Full Moon (1998), Poisons or The World History of Poisoning (2000), The Star (2002), The Rider Named Death (2004), The Vanished Empire (2008), Ward No. 6 (2009)
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