Andrey SMIRNOV
Андрей СМИРНОВ
Andreï SMIRNOV
Russia, 2019, 128mn 
Black and white, fiction
The French Man
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Француз

 

 Le Français

 Frantsuz

 
Directed by : Andrey SMIRNOV (Андрей СМИРНОВ)
Writing credits : Andrey SMIRNOV (Андрей СМИРНОВ)
 
Cast
Antoine RIVAL (Антуан РИВАЛЬ) ...Pierre
Yevgeniya OBRAZTSOVA (Евгения ОБРАЗЦОВА) ...Kira
Aleksandr BALUEV (Александр БАЛУЕВ) ...Tatischev
Yevgeni TKACHUK (Евгений ТКАЧУК) ...Valery Uspensky
Nina DROBYSHEVA (Нина ДРОБЫШЕВА)
Roman MADIANOV (Роман МАДЯНОВ)
Natalia Natalya TENYAKOVA (Наталья ТЕНЯКОВА)
Mikhail YEFREMOV (Михаил ЕФРЕМОВ)
 
Cinematography : Yuri SHAIGARDANOV (Юрий ШАЙГАРДАНОВ)
Production design : Lyudmila GAINCEVA (Людмила ГАИНЦЕВА), Vladimir GUDILIN (Владимир ГУДИЛИН)
Produced by : Elena_2 PRUDNIKOVA / SMIRNOVA (Елена_2 ПРУДНИКОВА / СМИРНОВА), Andrey SMIRNOV (Андрей СМИРНОВ)
Production : Мармот-фильм / Marmot-film
Film revenue in Russia : 0.2044 million dollars
Spectators : 46 096
Release date in Russia : 31/10/2019
 
Site : Page IMDb

Awards :
Best feature film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2020
Best directing Andrey SMIRNOV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2020
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Aleksandr BALUEV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2019
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Natalia Natalya TENYAKOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2019

Plot synopsis
A Frenchman, the story of a French exchange student's adventures in late 1950s Moscow, makes us painfully aware what a formidable cinematic mind and soul Smirnov has: discrete, educated, good-humoured, politically poignant while never dogmatic – the kind of public intellectual we perhaps need these days more than ever. Watching this film is like looking at a lost world, in more ways than one. https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/a-frenchman
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Andrei Smirnov: The Frenchman (Frantsuz, 2019), Julian GRAFFY, Kinokultura, 2020
«Le Français»: ce film tend un miroir aux années 1950 qui reflète notre époque, Oxana BOBROVITCH, sputniknews.com, 2020
The FrenchmanPremieres in Moscow, Michele A. BERDY, themoscowtimes.com, 2019
Un Français dans le cinéma russe, plume-de-loin.over-blog.com, 2019
«Француз»: Сокровенный человек Андрея Смирнова, Михаил ЩУКИН, seance.ru, 2019
ИНТЕРВЬЮ Андрей Смирнов: «Строение тоталитарного государства закончено» Знаменитый режиссер — о своем новом фильме «Француз», Interview, Novayagazeta.ru, 2019
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2020
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2020
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2020
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2020
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2019
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2019
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2019

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