Aleksey GERMAN
Алексей ГЕРМАН
Alekseï GUERMAN
Russia / France, 1997, 137mn 
Black and white, fiction
Khrustalyov, My Car !
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Хрусталев, машину !

 

 Khroustalev, ma voiture !

 Khrustalev, mashinu !

 
Directed by : Aleksey GERMAN (Алексей ГЕРМАН)
Writing credits : Mikhail GERASIMOV (Михаил ГЕРАСИМОВ), Aleksey GERMAN (Алексей ГЕРМАН), Svetlana KARMALITA (Светлана КАРМАЛИТА)
 
Cast
Aleksandr BASHIROV (Александр БАШИРОВ) ...Fedia Aramyshev
Mikhail DEMENTIEV (Михаил ДЕМЕНТЬЕВ) ...Klenski's son
Konstantin KHABENSKY (Константин ХАБЕНСКИЙ)
Aleksandr LYKOV (Александр ЛЫКОВ)
Viktor MIKHAILOV (Виктор МИХАЙЛОВ)
Valery POROSHIN (Валерий ПОРОШИН)
Lev PRIGOV (Лев ПРИГОВ)
Sergey RUSKIN (Сергей РУССКИН)
Nina RUSLANOVA (Нина РУСЛАНОВА) ...Klenski's wife
Olga SAMOSHINA (Ольга САМОШИНА)
Mikhail TRUKHIN (Михаил ТРУХИН)
Yuri TSURILO (Юрий ЦУРИЛО) ...Klenski
Jüri YARVET (JUNIOR) (Юри ЯРВЕТ (МЛАДШИЙ))
Aleksey ZHARKOV (Алексей ЖАРКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir_2 ILIN (Владимир_2 ИЛЬИН)
Production design : Mikhail GERASIMOV (Михаил ГЕРАСИМОВ), Georgi KROPACHEV (Георгий КРОПАЧЕВ), Vladimir SVETOZAROV (Владимир СВЕТОЗАРОВ)
Music : Andrey PETROV (Андрей ПЕТРОВ)
Sound : Nikolay ASTAKHOV (Николай АСТАХОВ), Eleonora KAZANSKAIA (Элеонора КАЗАНСКАЯ)
Produced by : Aleksandr GOLUTVA (Александр ГОЛУТВА), Armen MEDVEDEV (Армен МЕДВЕДЕВ)
Production : Lenfilm, Sodaperaga, Canal+
Release date in Russia : 27/08/1999
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Chapaev.media
Release date in France : 1999-01-13, Site

Awards :
Best film Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best directing Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Set Decoration Vladimir SVETOZAROV , Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best feature film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best directing "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Cinematography Vladimir_2 ILIN , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best music Andrey PETROV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Set Decoration Georgi KROPACHEV , Vladimir SVETOZAROV , Mikhail GERASIMOV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1999

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Capricci. 2015. Titre : Khroustaliov, ma voiture !.
Dans un double coffret contenant : « Il est difficile d’être Dieu » et « Khroustaliov, ma voiture ! »
Bonus du coffret :
- Guerman enfin... de Guy Seligmann (making of de Khroustaliov, ma voiture !), 1998, 19 min.
- Rencontre publique avec Svetlana Karmalita.
- Photographies de Il est difficile d'être un dieu par Sergueï Aksionov.
Voir : http://www.capricci.fr/coffret-alexei-guerman-361.html

Plot synopsis
The film is set in Moscow in 1953, against the background of the so-called Doctors' Plot - an anti-semitic operation that spread the rumour that Jewish doctors were conspiring to poison the Soviet high command. The hulking baldie Yuri Glinsky, a Red Army general and brain surgeon whose chaotic household shelters two Jewish nieces is caught up in the scandal. He ends up witnessing Stalin's gruesome demise, which is where the title is explained (Khroustaliov was chauffeur to Beria, chief of the secret police).
Source : www.guardian.co.uk
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Khrustalyov, My Car! [1997, Aleksey German, a new Blu-Ray package], Joël CHAPRON, Eugénie ZVONKINE, David BROOK, Daniel BIRD, Jonathan BRENT, Ron HOLLOWAY, Guy SZLIGMANN, Gianna D’EMILIO, Arrow Films, 2019
Не по той логике. [О фильме Хрусталев, машину!], Yevgeni MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2013
90-е. Кино, которое мы потеряли, Larisa MALUKOVA, Зебра Е ; 2007 г., 2007
Khroustaliov, ma voiture ! Alexeï Guerman, 1998, Mathieu GUETTA, rubrique-a-briques.blogspot.fr, 2006
La disparition comme forme d’existence. A propos du film Khroustalev, ma voiture ! d’Alexei Guerman, Mikhail YAMPOLSKY, hors-champ.ch, 2004
Khroustaliov, les clés de ma voiture ! [A propos du film Khroustaliov, ma voiture (1997) de Alexeï Guerman, texte qui, traduit en anglais, a été publié dans le fascicule accompagnant le Blu-ray britannique du film sorti en 2019], Joël CHAPRON, La Revue russe, 2003
"Я оком стал глядеть болезненно-отверстым..." [О фильме "Хрусталев, машину!"], Yevgeni MARGOLIT, kinozapiski.ru, 1999
Хоронили Сталина без Сталина, Viktor LISTOV, kinozapiski.ru, 1999
'My car!' rolls into fest after Russian drama, Joël CHAPRON, Meg BORTIN, Hollywood Reporter, 21 mai 1998, Cannes Daily #9, 1998
Alexeï Guerman. L'ultime défi. Voir et revoir Khroustaliov, ma voiture , Antoine DE BAECQUE, Cahiers du cinéma, numéro spécial Festival d’automne, pages 6-8, 1998
Festival d'automne 1998, Cahiers du cinéma. Supp. Festival d'automne 1998, 1998
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Rétrospective Alexeï Guerman à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2015
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2013
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2011
- Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, Estoril (Portugal), 2011
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Festival "Etonnants voyageurs" à Saint Malo, Saint Malo (France), 2010
- Festival "All our German", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2009
- Rencontres cinématographiques de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint Denis (France), 2008
- Osaka European Film Festival, Osaka (Japan), 2008
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- Budapest Rusian Film Days, Budapest (Hungary), 2007
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1999-01-13
- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 1999
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1999
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1998
- Fall Festival 1998, Paris (France), 1998