Liubov ARKUS
Любовь АРКУС
Lioubov ARKUS
Russia, 2021, 131mn 
documentary, TV
Kto tebia pobedil nikto
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Кто тебя победил никто

 

 What Beat You Nothing

 Qui t'a vaincu personne

 
Directed by : Liubov ARKUS (Любовь АРКУС)
 
Cast
Alla DEMIDOVA (Алла ДЕМИДОВА)
Teodor KURENTZIS (Теодор КУРЕНТЗИС)
Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV (Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ)
Maya TUROVSKAJA (Майя ТУРОВСКАЯ)
Kira MURATOVA (Кира МУРАТОВА)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr_2 DEMYANENKO (Александр_2 ДЕМЬЯНЕНКО), Alisher KHAMIDKHODZHAEV (Алишер ХАМИДХОДЖАЕВ)
Music : Yan MAZIN (Ян МАЗИН)
Editing : Dmitry NOVOSELTSEV (Дмитрий НОВОСЕЛЬЦЕВ)
Produced by : Konstantin ERNST (Константин ЭРНСТ)
Companies : Первый канал / Première chaîne
Release Date in Russia : 31/08/2021
 

Awards :
Best documentary serial National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2022

Plot synopsis
Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm of worries and sorrow? Maybe this is what intrigued Ljubov Arkus – arguably the most outstanding figure in modern Russian critical film culture – about her in the first place. That as a result of this mentality, something about the final decades of the USSR as well as the new Russia crystallises in her, making Demidova the perfect focal point for a meditation on several separate questions, sketches of other creative geniuses, all of them crisscrossing through her life and career. All of which makes What Beat You Nothing a most unusual undertaking, for it is not only a classical portrait of an artist, but an essay, a series of thoughts and observations that take Demidova as a starting point and finishing line.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Novaya Gazeta and Artdocfest Festival, On line (Russia), 2023
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2022
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2022
- National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2022
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2022