Aleksandr MEDVEDKIN
Александр МЕДВЕДКИН
Aleksandr MEDVEDKINE
USSR, 1938, 100mn 
Black and white, fiction
The New Moscow
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Новая Москва

 

 La Nouvelle Moscou

 Novaya Moskva

 
Directed by : Aleksandr MEDVEDKIN (Александр МЕДВЕДКИН)
Writing credits : Aleksandr MEDVEDKIN (Александр МЕДВЕДКИН)
 
Cast
Nina ALISOVA (Нина АЛИСОВА) ...Zoïa
Mariya BARABANOBA (Мария БАРАБАНОВА) ...Olia
Mariya BLYUMENTAL-TAMARINA (Мария БЛЮМЕНТАЛЬ-ТАМАРИНА) ...La grand-mère
Daniil SAGAL (Даниил САГАЛ) ...Aliocha
Lidia SMIRNOVA (Лидия СМИРНОВА)
Pavel SUKHANOV (Павел СУХАНОВ)
 
Cinematography : Igor GELEIN (Игорь ГЕЛЕЙН)
Production design : Valentin KADOCHNIKOV (Валентин КАДОЧНИКОВ)
Music : Vladimir YUROVSKY (Владимир ЮРОВСКИЙ)
Sound : Yevgeni NESTEROV (Евгений НЕСТЕРОВ)
Production : Mosfilm
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

Note :
The film was never released

Plot synopsis
An eccentric comedy about the trip of Alyosha, a young designer who drafted a model of the future capital. The love adventures of Alyosha and Zoya and of Fedya and Elly, a lyric-comic couple, are on the background of Moscow reconstruction. The film was never released. It is stored in the State film fund.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Deux fables socialistes d’Alexandre Medvedkine, Catherine GERY, Presses de l'Inalco, 2016
La Moscou du « plan stalinien » à travers l’œuvre de L’OST et la fiction cinématographique, Valérie POZNER, Élisabeth ESSAIAN, Cécile PICHON-BONIN, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2023
- Festival "Polka. liberated cinema", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Moscow, St-Petersburg, two capitals, one country, Toulouse (France), 2010
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Année croisée France-Russia, Different cities (France), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (France), 2002

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