Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
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Crew:
Writer: Dmitry Sobolev
Director: Pavel Lungin
Producers:
Pavel Lungin — main producer
Sergei Shumakov — main producer
Olga Vasilieva — producer
Stage-manager: Andrei Zhegalov
Artistic Directors: Igor Kotsarev, Alexander Tolkachev
Composer: Vladimir Martynov
Sound: Stefan Albine, Vladimir Litrovnik
Montage: Albina Antipenko
Costumes: Ekaterina Dyminskaya
Cast:
Pyotr Mamonov — father Anatoly
Viktor Sukhorukov — father Filaret
Dmitry Dyuzhev — father Iov (Job)
Yuriy Kuznetsov — Tikhon
Viktoriya Isakova — Nastya
Nina Usatova — widow
Jana Esipovich — young woman
Olga Demidova — woman with child
Timofei Tribuntzev — young Anatoly
Aleksei Zelensky — young Tikhon
Grisha Stepunov — child
Sergei Burunov — adjutant
Awards:
2006 — best film at the Moscow Premiere festival.
2007 — Six awards at the fifth national Golden Eagle Awards - "Best film", "Best male support role" (Viktor Suhorukov), "Best male role" (Petr Mamonov), "Best director" (Pavel Lungin), "Best scenario" (Dmitry Sobolev), "Best operator work" (Andrei Zhegalov).
2007 - Nika Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, etc.
© Pavel Lungin Studio, 2006.
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This film became a kind of revelation for me.Sometimes I was afraid that we had lost ourselves after perestroika, our cultural indenity, our spirit.Not because of difficulties, but beacuse of cultivation of western values. I think that this movie can tell much more about Russia,russian orthodoxy tradition, mentality, than lectures or even good books.
ОтветитьУдалитьI also like Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" very much))."The Island" continues the tradition of russian spiritual cinema. I was brought to church only 2-3 times in my childhood, for the first time it happened in my father village Plotnitsa (it was the Polish territory till WW2 so polish became his first native language ).
ОтветитьУдалитьThe second time it was also in countryside big village not far from the Azov sea in Ukraine the motherland of my grandfather from my mom side.Father often called me panenka or shlyahtyanka when I was a child))So, I'm tipycal russian))My parents were quite religuous people.
I was baptized in a Orthodox Church when I was 16 years old and it was my own decision.