Alexandre SOKUROV
Александр СОКУРОВ
Alexandre SOKOUROV
Russia, 1999, 102mn 
Colour, fiction
Molokh
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Молох

 

 Moloch

 Molokh

 
Directed by : Alexandre SOKUROV ( Александр СОКУРОВ)
Writing credits : Yuri ARABOV (Юрий АРАБОВ)
 
Cast
Leonid MOZGOVOY (Леонид МОЗГОВОЙ) ...Hitler
Yelena RUFANOVA (Елена РУФАНОВА) ...Eva Braun
Irina SOKOLOVA (Ирина СОКОЛОВА) ...Göbbels
Yelena KRAMER (Елена КРАМЕР) ...Magda Göbbels
Vladimir BOGDANOV (Владимир БОГДАНОВ)
Lev ELISEYEV (Лев ЕЛИСЕЕВ)
Sergey RAZHUK (Сергей РАЖУК)
Anatoli SHVEDERSKI (Анатолий ШВЕДЕРСКИЙ)
 
Production design : Sergey KOKOVKIN (Сергей КОКОВКИН)
Production : Lenfilm, Zero Films
 
Sites : Page sur Allociné, page sur IMDb
Release date in France : 1999-10-13, Site

Awards :
Best Screenplay Yuri ARABOV , Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1999
Best Screenplay Yuri ARABOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best Cinematography Aleksey FEDOROV , Anatoli RODIONOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best actress Yelena RUFANOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Best actor Leonid MOZGOVOY , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1999
Best actress Yelena RUFANOVA , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1999
Grand prix du Festival "Kinotavr", 1999

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Films sans frontières

Plot synopsis
<...>In his new film Alexander Sokurov shows a day in the ghostly and inaccessible House built on the Mountain for the man of Power — the Power that has already done its horrible and catastrophically destructive work over the world and man. The characters of this parable bear historical names, which are notorious all over the world — Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, Martin Borman and others. The Mountain, as all the other characters, also has a real prototype: Kelstein mountain in the Alps where in 1939 'the nest for the Furer' — Kelsteinhaus — was erected in the style of the Third Reich romanticism. <...>
Alexandra Tuchinskaya, http://sokurov.spb.ru - Complete review
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Vingt grandes réalisations des studios Lenfilm, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024
Alexandre Sokourov, François ALBERA, Mishel ESTEVE, CinémaAction, Editions Charles Corlet, 2009
Прорва. Образ пространства в современной кинодраматургии, Yelena GRACHEVA, seance.ru, 2009
90-е. Кино, которое мы потеряли, Larisa MALUKOVA, Зебра Е ; 2007 г., 2007
Moloch d’Aleksandr Sokourov, Marion FROGER, Ciné-Bulles, vol. 18, n° 4, 2000, p. 48-49., 2000
«В замке Клингзора тоскует любящая душа…». С Юрием Арабовым беседует Ирина Любарская, Interview, seance.ru, 1999
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Torino Film Festival, Turin (Italy), 2021
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2020
- Rétrospective Alexandre Sokourov Aix en Provence / Marseille, Aix en Provence (France), 2015
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2015
- The Russian Masters, Montreal (Canada), 2012
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2012
- Cycle Alexandre Sokourov au cinéma Grand Action, Paris (France), 2012
- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2012
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2011
- Alexandre Sokourov : des pages cachées, Paris (France), 2010
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2005
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2000
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1999
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1999-10-13
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1999
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999

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