Philip YURYEV
Филипп ЮРЬЕВ
Philippe YOURIEV
Russia / Belgium / Poland, 2020, 93mn 
fiction
The Whaler Boy
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Китобой

 

 Le Chasseur de baleine

 Kitoboy

 
Directed by : Philip YURYEV (Филипп ЮРЬЕВ)
Writing credits : Philip YURYEV (Филипп ЮРЬЕВ)
 
Cast
Vladimir ONOKHOV (Владимир ОНОХОВ) ...Lioshka
Kristina ASMUS (Кристина АСМУС)
Vladimir LIUBIMTSEV (Владимир ЛЮБИМЦЕВ)
Mariya CHUPRINSKAYA (Мария ЧУПРИНСКАЯ)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail KHURSEVICH (Михаил ХУРСЕВИЧ), Yakov MIRONCHEV (Яков МИРОНЧЕВ)
Production design : Georgi KOLOTYGIN (Георгий КОЛОТЫГИН)
Editing : Karolina MACHIEVSKA (Каролина МАЧИЕВСКА), Philip YURYEV (Филипп ЮРЬЕВ)
Produced by : Kira SAKSAGANSKAYA (Кира САКСАГАНСКАЯ), Aleksey UCHITEL (Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ)
Other persons :
Музыка Кшиштоф А. Янчак / musique : Krzysztof A. Janczak \ик // Актёры : Арье Вортхальтер / Acteurs : Arieh Worthalter
Production : ТПО «Рок» / TPO "Rock"
Release date in Russia : 08/10/2020
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Discovery of the year "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2021
Jury's Special Grand Prix Film Festival ’Romantic days’ in Cabourg, Cabourg (France), 2021
First prize Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2021
Jury Prize Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2021
Authors' Day Award Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2020
Best directing Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2020
Best actor Vladimir ONOKHOV , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2020
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2020
First prize Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2020
Best first film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2020

Plot synopsis
The life of Lyoshka, a fifteen-year-old hunter, changes completely with the appearance of a strange young girl from the "computer" who fascinates him. The hero's love for such a distant character, the fuzzy figure of a beautiful stranger, drives him to the most reckless act of his life: embarking on a dangerous journey through the whirlpools of the Bering Strait in search of of the one he loves in an unknown world.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Le chasseur de baleine (2020), Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2021
Filipp Yuriev: The Whaler Boy (Kitoboi, Russia-Belgium-Poland, 2020), Birgit BEUMERS, Kinokultura, 2020
Trois films russes sélectionnés à la Mostra de Venise 2020, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Changchun Film Festival, Changchun (China), 2023
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian cinema beyond borders, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Reflets du cinéma de la Mer Noire en Mayenne, Different cities (France), 2022
- Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2022
- Love International Film Festival, Mons (Belgium), 2021
- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2021
- Prague International Film Festival : Febiofest, Prague (Czech Republic), 2021
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival : PÖFF, Tallinn (Estonia), 2021
- Angers Festival Premiers Plans, Angers (France), 2021
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2021
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2021
- Film Festival ’Romantic days’ in Cabourg, Cabourg (France), 2021
- Festival de cinéma russe à Montpellier, Montpellier (France), 2021
- Itinérances. Festival cinéma d'Alès, Ales (France), 2021
- International Film Festival of India : IFFI, Goa (India), 2021
- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2021
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2021
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2021
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Film Festival Black Movie, Geneva (Switzerland), 2021
- San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco (USA), 2021
- Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2020
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), 2020
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2020
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2020
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2020
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey), 2020

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