Alexei Petrovich Popogrebski

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexei Popogrebski (2010)

Alexei Petrovich Popogrebski ( Russian Алексей Петрович Попогребский ; born August 7, 1972 in Moscow ) is a Russian film director and screenwriter.

biography

Alexei Popogrebski, son of screenwriter Peter Popogrebski, was born in the Soviet Union . He began studying psychology at Moscow State University , which he finished in 1995. He later worked as a translator. Together with Boris Chlebnikow, a graduate of the Moscow Film School WGIK , Popogrebski was responsible for directing and scripting the documentary Mimochod (1997) and the short film Tricky Frog (2000).

Their breakthrough as a film director paved the way for both of them to make their joint feature film debut Koktebel (2003). The road movie tells the story of a widowed, alcoholic father and his 11-year-old precocious son, who travel from Moscow to the eponymous city in the Crimea to start over with relatives. The idea for the film came up in 1995, and the first version of the script was available three years later. Popogrebski and Chlebnikow successfully submitted the script to the European PitchPoint international script competition in 2001 . In the same year they received state funding from the Russian Ministry of Culture.

After several expeditions to the original locations, the shooting took place from October to November 2002 in various rural areas in Russia and Ukraine. The main roles were played by Igor Chernevich and Gleb Puskepalis, son of the well-known theater director Sergei Puskepalis . The German film service was later to praise Koktebel as an “atmospheric, atmospheric, philosophically grounded story” that, like Andrei Svyaginzew's Golden Lion winner The Return (2003), would represent a new inwardness in Russian cinema. In 2004, Popogrebski's and Chlebnikov's directorial work was nominated as best film for the Nika , Russia's national film award, and brought the two filmmakers several other international film awards, including at the Filipino Cinemanila in Manila and at the GoEast Festival in Wiesbaden .

After Koktebel , the artistic paths of Popogrebski and Chlebnikow parted. Four years later, the Russian managed to build on the previous success as sole director of the feature film Prostyje veschtschi (2007). In the tragicomedy (international English-language title: Simple Things ), which, like Cristi Puius The Death of Mr Lazarescu, captures the dreary everyday life in Eastern Europe, theater director Sergei Puskepalis slipped into the role of a 40-year-old anesthetist looking after a pregnant wife Has. Suffering from a midlife crisis , he meets a retired actor (played by Leonid Bronewoi ), who asks him for euthanasia in exchange for financial independence. The film, which consists of medium shots and extreme close-ups, was inspired by the figure constellation of Koktebel and Popogrebski's family, which consists of many medical professionals. Critics praised Prostyje veschtschi as an "intimate, closely observed story" and for its performance as an actor. Popogrebski's film won several international awards, including the 2007 Ecumenical Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as well as the main prizes at the Kinotaur Russian Film Festival in Sochi and the Angers European Film Festival .

After a short foray into Russian television, Popogrebski completed his third feature film, How I Ended This Summer , in 2010 . Like the two previous works, this one was produced by Roman Borissewitsch and his film company Koktebel , who also acted as cameraman for Popogrebski's eponymous feature film debut. The psychological thriller was shot on the Chukchi Peninsula and reports on an experienced meteorologist and his young interns who spend the last watch in isolation on a polar station on the Arctic Ocean . For the film, Popogrebski was inspired by Nikolai Pinegin's diaries , which the director knew from his youth. Pinegin had accompanied Georgi Sedov on his tragically ending polar expedition (1912–1914). How I Ended This Summer received an invitation to the competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010 and won the Silver Bears for the two leading actors Grigori Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis as well as for the camera work by Pawel Kostomarow . Other awards included the main prizes at the London and Chicago film festivals (both in 2010) and the Golden Eagle of the Russian Film Academy in the categories of Best Film and Best Screenplay (2011). In 2011, the seven-minute fantasy film Bloodrop 3D was made with the assistance of Dobrygin .

Filmography

  • 1997: Mimochod ( Мимоход ) (documentary)
  • 2000: Tricky Frog (short film)
  • 2003: Koktebel ( Коктебель )
  • 2007: Prostyje veschtschi ( Простые вещи )
  • 2010: How I Ended This Summer ( Как я провел этим летом )
  • 2011: Bloodrop 3D (short film)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Profile ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at academia-rossica.org (English; accessed on January 24, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / academia-rossica.org
  2. ↑ a b cf. Press kit at fdk-berlin.de, PDF, 103 KiB (accessed January 24, 2010)
  3. ↑ a b cf. Interview on Prostyje veschtschi at rg.ru, July 6, 2007 (Russian; accessed on January 31, 2010)
  4. ↑ cf. Film review by Ralf Schenk in film-dienst 17/2004 (accessed on January 24, 2010 via Munzinger Online )
  5. ↑ cf. Film review by Nathan Southern in the All Movie Guide (accessed January 24, 2010)
  6. ↑ cf. Alissa Simon: Simple Things  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com   . In: Variety . July 16 2007 - July 22, 2007, p. 28.
  7. ↑ cf. Film review by Dan Fainaru at screendaily.com, July 8, 2007 (accessed January 24, 2009)
  8. ↑ cf. Алексей Попогребский представит Россию на Берлинале ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at video.ru, January 21, 2010 (accessed on January 24, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.video.ru
  9. ↑ cf. Information (PDF file; 679 kB) on Kak ja prowjol etim letom at berlinale.de (accessed on February 8, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Popogrebski, Alexei Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popogrebsky, Aleksei; Popogrebsky, Alexei; Popogrebsky, Alexei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union