Andrei Lvovich Nekrasov

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Andrei Nekrasov (2007)

Andrei Lwowitsch Nekrasow ( Russian Андре́й Льво́вич Некра́сов , * 1958 in Leningrad ) is a Russian screenwriter and film director.

life and work

Education and early work

Andrei Nekrasov studied acting and directing at the State Institute for Theater and Film in Leningrad, comparative literature and philosophy in Paris and film at the Film School of the University of Bristol .

In 1985 he was Andrei Tarkovsky's assistant while filming and producing his film Victims . Subsequently, Nekrasov shot several international co-productions, especially documentaries . His first short film Springing Lenin was released in 1993, and in 1997 the first full-length film Silna, kak smert, lyubov (English title: Love Is as Strong as Death ). Both films won awards at festivals. The second full-length drama, Lyubov i drugie koshmary ( Любовь и другие кошмары , festival title English Lyubov and Other Nightmares , German  Lyubow and other nightmares ) from 2001 was performed at several festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlinale .

As a playwright and theater director, Nekrassow staged his plays The Player at the Euro Theater Central Bonn (seasons 1999/2000 and 2001/2002) and Königsberg (world premiere in December 2002) at the Volksbühne Berlin .

Documentaries since 2004

In the documentary Bunt. Delo Litvinenko ( Бунт: Де́ло Литвине́нко ; German  rebellion. The Litvinenko affair ) from 2007 dealt with the background to the murder of the former KGB officer, defector and critic of the Russian government, Alexander Litvinenko . The film contained interviews with Litvinenko and other government critics, including the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya . Among other things, Nekrasov had accompanied Litvinenko during his last days in a London hospital. In the film, he weighed heavily on the Russian government under President Vladimir Putin . Rebellion was added to the program at short notice at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for an out-of-competition screening.

In his documentaries, Nekrasov also dealt with terrorist attacks and armed conflicts in which Russia was or is supposed to have been involved, such as the bomb attacks on residential buildings in Russia in Disbelief (1999) and the Caucasus War in 2008 in Russian Lessons (2010).

From 2011 to 2013 Nekrassow lived as a guest author of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) in Haugesund, Norway .

Controversy over Magnitsky documentary

In 2016, Nekrasov's documentary The Magnitsky Case , in which the death of Russian auditor Sergei Magnitsky , who specializes in tax optimization for foreign investors, was raised in Russian custody, sparked international controversy . Nekrasov accuses u. a. the American hedge fund manager Bill Browder for having falsified the story of Magnitsky's arrest, imprisonment and death in western media. In particular, he described the portrayal of Magnitsky as a whistleblower who was persecuted and killed by the Russian state, as a fairy tale that was fabricated by Browder. The book that Nekrasov wrote about the film carries the claim "Why did the new Cold War with Russia start?"

In his film, Nekrasov puts forward the thesis that Magnitsky was not murdered in prison, as it was received in the independent press, because he discovered illegal dealings by Russian authorities. Rather, Magnitsky was arrested because he was involved in dubious business dealings with his US employer, Bill Browder , and he was not deliberately murdered, but only tragically died because of the appalling prison conditions. Magnitsky was "not an isolated case". The portrayal in Nekrassov's film sparked outraged reactions from Browder and the Magnitskis family. The family also complained that Nekrasov had brought his material, which had been fraudulently obtained under false claims, into the film, contrary to the family's prohibition (“ignoring their ban on the use of these materials”).

The Franco-German television broadcaster ARTE had announced the almost two-hour documentary, in which the Second German Television was involved as a co-producer, for May 3, 2016, the " Freedom of the Press Day " - but the film was withdrawn from the program shortly beforehand. The planned screening of the film in the rooms of the Brussels EU Parliament has been canceled. German politicians also criticized Nekrasov; the Green politician Marieluise Beck protested against Nekrassov's actions in an interview with her; the deputy chairman of the human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Bernd Fabritius , rejected Nekrasov's accusation that the Council of Europe had based its assessment of the Magnitsky affair on the information Leaving Browders and not doing my own research.

The rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Andreas Gross , was indignant that the "so-called" documentary was spreading untruths and accused Nekrasov of manipulation. Nekrasov's entire thesis is based on the only " demonstrably untrue claim that Magnitsky did not accuse the police at all". Nekrasov protested by emphasizing that he was relying on the original Russian documents relating to Magnitsky's police questioning, and not on the English translation submitted by Browder.

In a 2016 publication by the conservative US think tank Hudson Institute , Marius Laurinavicius raised the question of whether Nekrasov had long been an advocate of Putinism because of his Soviet nostalgia , and sparked a little-noticed film from the year called Together Forever 2010 attentive in which Nekrasov used the technique of twisting and portrayed half-truths.

A private screening of the film took place despite threatening legal action Browder in for this purpose by the Russian lobby group led by Rinat Akhmetshin rented Washington journalism museum Newseum , organized in an effort thus to influence public opinion.

The Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta used publicly available documents to demonstrate that Nekrasov's version was false and summarized: "There are two funerals in this film - the second is Nekrasov's credibility."

Nekrasov recently presented his perspective of the so-called Magnitsky affair and his film in a detailed interview with the online magazine Telepolis . In it he explains his view of Magnitsky and Browder, Putin and the Russian system with its oligarchs and puts them in the larger context of the History of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet state.

Awards

Filmography

  • 1987: A Russia of One's own (TV movie)
  • 1990: Pasternak (TV film)
  • 1990: The Prodigal Son (TV docu-drama)
  • 1991: Springing Lenin (short film)
  • 1997: Silna, kak smert, lyubov ( Сильна как смерть любовь , feature film)
  • 2001: Lyubov and other nightmares ( Lyubov i drugie koshmary , Любовь и другие кошмары , feature film)
  • 2004: Nedoverie ( Недоверие , Disbelief , documentary)
  • 2007: rebellion. The Litvinenko case ( Bunt. Delo Litvinenko , Бунт: Де́ло Литвине́нко , documentary)
  • 2007: My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder (TV documentary)
  • 2010: Russian Lessons ( Uroki russkogo , Уроки русского , documentary)
  • 2013: Farewell Comrades (TV documentary series)
  • 2015: In Search of Putin's Russia (Al Jazeera English, TV documentary series)
  • 2016: Der Fall Magnitsky ( The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes , documentary)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Andrei Nekrasov. (No longer available online.) In: nfi.no. Norwegian Film Institute , archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The player: Grotesque in two acts after Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Andrej Nekrasov. Euro Theater Central Bonn , archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Season chronicle 2000 to 2010. (No longer available online.) Volksbühne Berlin , archived from the original on January 10, 2017 ; accessed on January 10, 2017 . 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Erich Follath, Veronika Hackenbroch, Hans Hoyng, Thomas Hüetlin, Uwe Klußmann, Christian Neef, Jan Puhl, Matthias Schepp: death sentence from Moscow . In: Der Spiegel . Edition 49/2006, December 4, 2006 ( online [accessed June 1, 2019]).
  5. ^ Documentary about the Litvinenko murder in Cannes. In: news.ch. May 23, 2007, accessed January 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Stefanie Bolzen: Documentary: The Search for Truth in the Caucasus War. In: welt.de . September 30, 2009, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Andrei Nekrasov. (No longer available online.) International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), archived from the original on January 13, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 (English). 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.icorn.org
  8. ^ A b Andrei Nekrasov, Vetta Kirillova: Bill Browder and his story of the death of the alleged whistleblower Magnitsky. In: Telepolis. Heise Verlag, July 15, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Of journalistic coups, different perspectives and the disgust for lies. In: NachDenkSeiten. Albrecht Müller, January 13, 2019, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Дело Магнитского. Зачем начали новую холодную войну с Россией? In: moscowbooks.ru. Retrieved December 9, 2018 (Russian).
  11. ↑ a b Niklas Záboji: I am a critic of the Kremlin myself. In: FAZ.net . May 14, 2016, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b Сапожник и его пироги. In: Novaya Gazeta . July 1, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2018 (Russian): "And another funeral took place - the call of director Nekrasov."
  13. ↑ Niklas Záboji: How did the lawyer die in Moscow? In: FAZ.net . April 29, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Traces of abuse. In: FAZ.net . May 27, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  15. ^ Andreas Gross : Magnitski's murder. Guest Post. In: faz.net . June 16, 2018, accessed on December 9, 2018 : "Anyone who knows the documents that have come to us from various sources will notice that Nekrasov is manipulating and Sergei Magnitsky is doing another injustice."
  16. ^ Marius Laurinavicius: The Many Faces of Putinism. Hudson Institute , June 14, 2016, accessed December 9, 2018 .
  17. ^ Henry Johnson: Millionaire Tries to Stop Documentary Claiming to Tell the True Story of Russia's Missing $ 230 Million. In: foreignpolicy.com . June 10, 2016, accessed December 9, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Maxim Kireev: The man for the greasy . In: mdr.de . July 12, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Christopher Wallace, Alex Diaz, Jason Kopp: Shadowy company tied to Russia meeting linked to Trump Jr. troubles. In: foxnews.com . July 12, 2017, accessed on December 9, 2018 (English): "Akhmetshin had led the way in getting a movie that attempted to influence public and official opinion about the Magnitsky Act shown at Washington's respected Newseum on June 13, 2016."
  20. ↑ Florian Rötzer: Browder and the Magnitsky narrative: the end of a disinformation campaign? In: Telepolis . November 24, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  21. ^ 46th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival. In: fipresci.org. FIPRESCI , accessed January 9, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Farewell, comrades (ZDF / ARTE / rbb). In: grimme-preis.de. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Nekrasov, Andrei Lwowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nekrasov, Andrej; Nekrasov, Andrei; Некрасов, Андрей Львович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union