Dmitry POVOLOTSKY
Дмитрий ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ
Dmitri POVOLOTSKI
Russia, 2011, 88mn 
Colour, fiction
My Dad, Baryshnikov
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Мой папа - Барышников

 

 Mon papa c'est Baryshnikov

 Moy papa - Baryshnikov

 
Directed by : Dmitry POVOLOTSKY (Дмитрий ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ)
Writing credits : Dmitry POVOLOTSKY (Дмитрий ПОВОЛОЦКИЙ)
 
Cast
Dmitry BOSKUBENKO (Дмитрий ВОСКУБЕНКО) ...Boris
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА)
Vladimir KAPUSTIN (Владимир КАПУСТИН)
Ilya RUTBERG (Илья РУТБЕРГ)
Anatoli KOT (Анатолий КОТ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey MOKRITSKY (Сергей МОКРИЦКИЙ)
Production design : Valery ARKHIPOV (Валерий АРХИПОВ)
Music : Aleksandr MANOTSKOV (Александр МАНОЦКОВ)
Produced by : Natalia MOKRITSKAIA (Наталья МОКРИЦКАЯ)
Production : Film Company “Novye Liudi” (“New People”)
Film revenue in Russia : 0.0689 million dollars
 

Awards :
Second Audience Award, First Russian Films, "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2012
Best music Aleksandr MANOTSKOV , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
Yul Brynner Award International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011

Plot synopsis
It takes place in the ‘80s and focuses on a 15-year-old student of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography who dreams of becoming a Bolshoi star. To reach his dream, the boy must work hard and overcome all sorts of hardships. “The film’s happy ending will energize viewers with the sort of positive emotions we don’t have enough of in current cinema”, Mokritskaya hopes.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Dmitrii Povolotskii, Mark Drugoi: My Dad, Baryshnikov (Moi papa, Baryshnikov, 2011), Vincent BOHLINGER, kinokultura.com, 2011
La Russie de 2011 au miroir de son cinéma, Sylvie BRAIBANT, TV5, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2012
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2012
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2012
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2012
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2012
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2011
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2011
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2011
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2011
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2011
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2011