Vitali MANSKY
Виталий МАНСКИЙ
Vitali MANSKI
Russia, 2009, 93mn 
Colour, documentary
Nicolas's Hill
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Николина Гора. Послесловие

 

 La Colline de Nicolas

 Nikolina Gora. Posleslovie

 
Directed by : Vitali MANSKY (Виталий МАНСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Vitali MANSKY (Виталий МАНСКИЙ)
Cinematography : Irina SHATALOVA (Ирина ШАТАЛОВА)
Production design : Vadim ANDRIANOV (Вадим АНДРИАНОВ)
Music : Aleksandr BAKKHAUS (Александр БАКХАУС)
Production : "VERTOV. Real Cinéma"
 
Site : manski.ru

Plot synopsis
The documentary "Nicholas's Hill" shows, like Anton Chekhov's play "The Cherry Orchards", a cross-section of Russian society on the threshold of a new epoch. The film's characters are successors of the landowners of a pine wood on embankment of the river Moskva, which was allocated by the Soviet government in 1924 to outstanding scientists and artists.
"Dachas and summer residents - that's so vulgar", says the aesthete Ranevskaya in Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard" when resisting the division of her land into small plots. But progress was relentless, and the old "Cherry Orchard" had to be sold and chopped down, so that in its place a new way of life could emerge. Everything repeats itself.
Source : Kinotavr
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2009
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009