Vitali MELNIKOV
Виталий МЕЛЬНИКОВ
Vitali MELNIKOV
Russia, 2011, full length film 
Colour, fiction
The Admirer
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Поклонница

 

 L'Admiratrice

 Poklonnitsa

Other titles : Львы, орлы и куропатки
 
Directed by : Vitali MELNIKOV (Виталий МЕЛЬНИКОВ)
Writing credits : Vitali MELNIKOV (Виталий МЕЛЬНИКОВ)
 
Cast
Kirill PIROGOV (Кирилл ПИРОГОВ) ...Chekhov
Svetlana IVANOVA (Светлана ИВАНОВА) ...Lidya
Oleg ANDREYEV (Олег АНДРЕЕВ)
Ivan KRASKO (Иван КРАСКО)
Svetlana KRIUCHKOVA (Светлана КРЮЧКОВА)
Oleg TABAKOV (Олег ТАБАКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey ASTAKHOV (Сергей АСТАХОВ), Stepan KOVALENKO (Степан КОВАЛЕНКО)
Production design : Aleksandr ZAGOSKIN (Александр ЗАГОСКИН)
Music : Igor KORNELYUK (Игорь КОРНЕЛЮК)
Sound : Igor TEREKHOV (Игорь ТЕРЕХОВ)
Editing : Raisa LISOVA (Раиса ЛИСОВА)
Produced by : Olga AGRAFENINA (Ольга АГРАФЕНИНА), Dmitry MESKHIEV (Дмитрий МЕСХИЕВ), Yuri SAPRONOV (Юрий САПРОНОВ), Andrey_4 SMIRNOV (Андрей_4 СМИРНОВ)
Production : Lenfilm, RWS, Kinomelnitsa
Release date in Russia : 24/01/2012
 

Awards :
Second Audience Award "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2012
Prize of the Festival President "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2012
First prize, Velikaya semerka, International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2012
Best actor, , Kirill PIROGOV , International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2012
Audience Award Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2012
Audience Award Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2012

Plot synopsis
"Chekhov, played by Kirill Pirogov, arrives in St. Petersburg already reputed as a literary figure, and meets Lydia Avilova (Svetlana Ivanova), a young writer and an admirer of his work. The two quickly fall in love, but the story cannot be a happy one: He is terminally ill with tuberculosis, and she is married with children. In contrast with modern cinema, their love affair consists of a few meetings, a few exchanged letters and not much else. But a shared understanding of literature and their affection for each other unites the characters until the final frame of the movie. "
http://www.sptimes.ru/story/35094
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Regards de Russie: week-end à l’Arlequin, sortiedusine.org, 2012
Return to the classics [About the film The Admirer by Vitaly Melnikov], Tatyana SOCHIVA, The St. Petersburg Times, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Carthage Film Festival, Carthage (Tunisia), 2016
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2014
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2014
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2013
- Film Festival " La vague russe", Bastia (France), 2013
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2013
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Marbella Russian Filmfest, Marbella (Spain), 2013
- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2013
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2012
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2012
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2012
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2012
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2012
- Festival of Festivals, St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2012

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