Irina KVIRIKADZE
Ирина КВИРИКАДЗЕ
Irina KVIRIKADZE
Russia, 2009, 78mn 
Colour, fiction
Tartar Princess
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Татарская княжна

 

 La Princesse tatare

 Tatarskaya knyazhna

 
Directed by : Irina KVIRIKADZE (Ирина КВИРИКАДЗЕ)
 
Cast
Daniya AGISHEVA (Дания АГИШЕВА) ...Anna Akhmatova / A. Kaminskaïa
Jokhan BOTT (Йохан БОТТ) ...Nicolaï Goumilev (Николай Гумилев)
Dmitry ERMILOV (Дмитрий ЕРМИЛОВ) ...Amadéo Modigliani (Модильяни)
Fyodor LAVROV (Федор ЛАВРОВ) ...Pertchenko (Перченко)
Hanna SCHYGULLA (Ханна ШИГУЛА) ...Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова в 1965)
Anatoli SHVEDERSKI (Анатолий ШВЕДЕРСКИЙ) ...Boris Anrep (Борис Анреп)
Inna STEPANOVA (Инна СТЕПАНОВА) ...Amanda Kheït (Аманда Хейт)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail KVIRIKADZE (Михаил КВИРИКАДЗЕ )
Music : Olga PETROVA (Ольга ПЕТРОВА)
Produced by : Oleg TEPTSOV (Олег ТЕПЦОВ)
 

Awards :
Best music Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
1911. The young poet Anna Akhmatova and her young husband Nikolay Gumilyov spend their honey¬moon in Paris. Here Anna meets the totally unknown painter Modigliani.
1965. The aged Akhmatova comes to the city of her youth. She is now an acknowledged poet, nominated for the Nobel Prize. A call from the blac¬kmailer brings back the events of 54 years before. The menacing voice threatens to publish Modigliani's sketches, compromising Akhmatova. She was sure the sketches had been destroyed by Gumilyov half a century ago. Akhmatova decides to carry out her own investigation and find the blackmailer...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival "Russian Film Out of Russia", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010
- Russian Film Festival, Riga (Latvia), 2009
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2009