Yulia GREBENNIKOVA
Юлия ГРЕБЕННИКОВА
Youlia GREBENNIKOVA
Polina ZAVADSKAYA
Полина ЗАВАДСКАЯ
Polina ZAVADSKAYA
Russia, 2019, 66mn 
documentary
Effekt Borovska
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Эффект Боровска

 

 Borovsk's effect

 L'Effet Borovsk

 
Directed by : Yulia GREBENNIKOVA (Юлия ГРЕБЕННИКОВА), Polina ZAVADSKAYA (Полина ЗАВАДСКАЯ)
Writing credits : Boris MINAEV (Борис МИНАЕВ)
Cinematography : Yulia GREBENNIKOVA (Юлия ГРЕБЕННИКОВА), Polina ZAVADSKAYA (Полина ЗАВАДСКАЯ)
Music : Fyodor SENCHUKOV (Федор СЕНЧУКОВ)
Produced by : Asia DRUYANOVA (Ася ДРУЯНОВА), Daria KHRENOVA (Дарья ХРЕНОВА)
Companies : Studio:The Magic Mountain
 

Plot synopsis
Vladimir Ovchinnikov is the ‘Russian Banksy’ – a street artist and a political activist. Because of his art, hundreds of tourists have visited Borovsk, an old Russian town. On the town’s walls he paints the portraits of famous Russian writers and historical figures, as well as photographs of Borovsk’s citizens killed during Stalin’s dictatorship. These painted images, however, are regularly destroyed by officials. But the will of the artist is irrepressible, and he recreates them over and over again.
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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Annual Independent Russian-American Documentary Film Festival in New York​ (Tribeca), New York (USA), 2020
- National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2019