Viktor SHAMIROV
Виктор ШАМИРОВ
Viktor CHAMIROV
Russia, 2011, 93mn 
Colour, fiction
The Practice of Beauty
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Упражнения в прекрасном

 

 La Pratique de la perfection

 Uprazhneniya v prekrasnom

 
Directed by : Viktor SHAMIROV (Виктор ШАМИРОВ)
Writing credits : Gosha KUTSENKO (Гоша КУЦЕНКО), Viktor SHAMIROV (Виктор ШАМИРОВ), Konstantin YUSHKEVICH (Константин ЮШКЕВИЧ)
 
Cast
Gosha KUTSENKO (Гоша КУЦЕНКО)
Viktor SHAMIROV (Виктор ШАМИРОВ)
Konstantin YUSHKEVICH (Константин ЮШКЕВИЧ)
Pavel SAVINKOV (Павел САВИНКОВ)
Kseniya RADCHENKO (Ксения РАДЧЕНКО)
 
Cinematography : Semyon YAKOVLEV (Семён ЯКОВЛЕВ)
Production design : Svetlana DUBINA (Светлана ДУБИНА)
Music : Dmitry KATKHANOV (Дмитрий КАТХАНОВ)
Sound : Anatoli BELOZEROV (Анатолий БЕЛОЗЕРОВ)
Produced by : Gosha KUTSENKO (Гоша КУЦЕНКО), Andrei_2 NOVIKOV (Андрей_2 НОВИКОВ), Viktor SHAMIROV (Виктор ШАМИРОВ), Konstantin YUSHKEVICH (Константин ЮШКЕВИЧ)
Production : Film company “Scena”
Film revenue in Russia : 0.1503 million dollars
 

Awards :
Best actor Konstantin YUSHKEVICH , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
Best Screenplay Gosha KUTSENKO , Viktor SHAMIROV , Konstantin YUSHKEVICH , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011

Plot synopsis
There is no theatre-goer who would refuse to go backstage. Rehearsals and talks in the wings, parties and intrigues, flirts and tears, success and failure… Viktor Shamirov’s comedy is about that. Ironically and skilfully the film tells about the life of a touring company – that life which is “hard and unsightly”, mysterious and attractive, ridiculous and tragic. A small group of Moscow actors goes on tour to several large Russian cities. The circumstances and motifs of the heroes are largely borrowed from real events which happened in the lives of the authors.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Viktor Shamirov: Exercises in Beauty (Uprazhneniia v prekrasnom, 2011), Andrei ROGATCHEVSKI, kinokultura.com, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2012
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2012
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2011
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2011
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2011

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