Andrey KONCHALOVSKY
Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ
Andreï KONTCHALOVSKI
Russia / France, 2007, 117mn 
Colour, fiction
Gloss / Gloss : The Director's Cut
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Глянец

 

 Gloss / Papier glacé

 Glyanets

 
Directed by : Andrey KONCHALOVSKY (Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Andrey KONCHALOVSKY (Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ), Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
 
Cast
Olga ARNTGOLTZ (Ольга АРНТГОЛЬЦ)
Aleksandr DOMOGAROV (Александр ДОМОГАРОВ) ...Klimenko
Sergey GSINSKY (Сергей ГУСИНСКИЙ)
Ilya ISAEV (Илья ИСАЕВ)
Irina ROZANOVA (Ирина РОЗАНОВА) ...Alina
Aleksey SEREBRIAKOV (Алексей СЕРЕБРЯКОВ) ...Stassis
Artemi TROITSKY (Артемий ТРОИЦКИЙ) ...Mark
Yulia VYSOTSKAIA (Юлия ВЫСОЦКАЯ) ...Galia
 
Cinematography : Mariya SOLOVIEVA (Мария СОЛОВЬЕВА)
Production design : Yekaterina ZALETAEVA (Екатерина ЗАЛЕТАЕВА)
Music : Boris FRUMKIN (Борис ФРУМКИН)
Produced by : Aleksandr BROVARETS (Александр БРОВАРЕЦ), Andrey KONCHALOVSKY (Андрей КОНЧАЛОВСКИЙ), Yevgeni STEPANOV (Евгений СТЕПАНОВ)
Production : PTS Andreï Kontchalovski / Canal+, Cadran Productions, Motion Investment Group, Backup Films
Film revenue in Russia : 4.684 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 23/08/2007
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 2009-02-25, Site

Plot synopsis
Dramatic comedy.
The simple seamstress Galia arrives in Moscow from the Rostov province. She dreams of a career as a supermodel, but she is not destined to become a model. Indeed, she is told so right away, and reaches this conclusion herself by the end of film, having worked as seamstress with a well-known fashion designer, as assistant to the owner of an elite model agency engaged in the selection of brides for rich people ñ where she learns how much the rich pay for the happy life in their villas. The film is based on real events.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Gloss , Patrick Boriès, portail-du-cinema.com, 2009
Andrei Konchalovskii : Gloss (Glianets, 2007), Olga MESROPOVA, kinokultura.com, 2008
Andrei Konchalovskii : Gloss (Glianets; 2007), Sasha RAZOR, kinokultura.com, 2008
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Andrey Konchalovsky retrospective at the Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2020
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2019
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2017
- Festival Andrey Konchalovsky, Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Semaine russe au Ciné-Parvis Le Méridien de Tarbes, Tarbes (France), 2010
- Semaine de cinéma russe à la cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image d'Angoulême, Angoulême (France), 2010
- Rencontres du cinéma européen, Vannes (France), 2010
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2009
- Retrospective Andrey Konchalovsky, Paris (France), 2009
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2009-02-25
- Festival Pau ville russe, Pau (France), 2009
- The portrayal of Russian women in Russian and Soviet films, Biarritz (France), 2009
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2009
- Cinemania : World Film Panorama, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008
- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2008
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2008
- Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm (Sweden), 2008
- Festival Russian cinema in Israel, Tel Aviv (Israel), 2007
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007
- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2007

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