Aleksey UCHITEL
Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ
Alekseï OUTCHITEL
Russia, 2016, 109mn 
fiction
Matilda
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 Matilda

 Matilda

 
Directed by : Aleksey UCHITEL (Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr TEREKHOV (Александр ТЕРЕХОВ)
 
Cast
Mihalina OLSZANSKA (Михалина ОЛЬШАНСКА) ...Matilda
Lars EIDINGER (Ларс АЙДИНГЕР) ...Nicolas II
Luisa WOLFAM (Луиза ВОЛЬФАМ) ...Empress Alexandra Fedorovna
Danila KOZLOVSKY (Данила КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Ingeborga DAPKUNAITE (Ингеборга ДАПКУНАЙТЕ)
Grigori DOBRYGIN (Григорий ДОБРЫГИН)
Sergey GARMASH (Сергей ГАРМАШ)
Yevgeni MIRONOV (Евгений МИРОНОВ)
Galina TIUNINA (Галина ТЮНИНА)
 
Cinematography : Yuri KLIMENKO (Юрий КЛИМЕНКО)
Production design : Nadezhda VASILYEVA (Надежда ВАСИЛЬЕВА), Vera ZELINSKAYA (Вера ЗЕЛИНСКАЯ), Yelena ZHUKOVA (Елена ЖУКОВА)
Produced by : Aleksey UCHITEL (Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ), Vladimir VINOKUR (Владимир ВИНОКУР)
Production : ТПО «РОК» / TPO "ROCK"
Film revenue in Russia : 9.177 million dollars
Spectators : 2 100 000
Release date in Russia : 08/10/2017
 
Sites : Page Allociné, page IMDb

Awards :
Best Set Decoration Vera ZELINSKAYA , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2018

Plot synopsis
The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Александр Попов. От декаданса к коммерческому кино: творческий путь Алексея Учителя [A propos de l'oeuvre du réalisateur Aleksei Outchitel], Александр ПОПОВ, Kinopressa, 2023
Aleksei Uchitel: Matilda (Matil’da, 2017), Sergey DOBRYNIN, Kinokultura, 2018
En Russie, le film Matilda fait polémique, Sophie MANNO DE NOTO, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2017
Russie : « Matilda », ou la naissance d’un mouvement orthodoxe extrémiste, Isabelle MANDRAUD, Le Monde, 2017
Une fantasy steampunk sur le dernier Tsar: pourquoi faut-il aller voir «Matilda», Dimitri BOSCHMANN, Sputnik, 2017
 
Alexei Uchitel's film seems to have gone through all the circles of hell before reaching the viewer - condemnation from the public, demands for bans, lawsuits and even assassination attempts.
https://kino.mail.ru/cinema/selection/434_ne_prokatilo_20_filmov_kotorie_ne_hoteli_pokazivat_v_rossii/

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Prague International Film Festival : Febiofest, Prague (Czech Republic), 2018
- Festival of Russian cinema in Nice, Nice (France), 2018
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2018
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2018
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2018
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2018
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2018
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2017
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2017
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2017

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