Grigori ILUGDIN
Григорий ИЛУГДИН
Grigori ILOUGDINE
Russia, 2019, 44mn 
documentary
Pik Babelia
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Пик Бабеля

 

 Pik Babelia

 Le Pic Babel

 
Directed by : Grigori ILUGDIN (Григорий ИЛУГДИН)
 

Plot synopsis
The film is dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Babel. He was the representative of the famous literary school of Odessa which gave in two decades a host of eminent writers; Babel, Kataev, Ilf and Petrov, Paustovsky, Bagritsky...
Their works, impregnated with a mixture of Russian, Jewish and Ukrainian cultures and the incomparable language of the suburbs of Odessa, had huge circulations and were distributed throughout the country. And the first of them was Babel! Her brilliant life ended early and tragically. In 1940 he was shot in the Boutyrka prison. He was 45.
The "Peak Babel", This is how a group of mountaineers from Odessa called one of the peaks of the Pamirs.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2020