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DNEVNIK YEGO ZHENI
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Russia
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 110 min.
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HIS WIFE'S DIARY / LE JOURNAL INTIME DE SA FEMME
In October of this year, Russian and international literature lovers will be celebrating the 130th anniversary of the birth of the great poet and novelist Ivan Bunin. The first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize, Bunin is considered one of the most important figures in Russian literature before the Revolution of 1917, his restrained classical style having a closer kinship with the prose of the 19th century than with the modernist experiments of his own time. This film reveals the private side of Bunin's life. Living in exile in France, concerned with the fate of his homeland during the cataclysmic events of World War II, Bunin can't find peace in his own family. An intricate love story involving his wife Vera, the young poetess Galina Plotnikova, and opera singer Marga Kovtun for whom Galina leaves Bunin, HIS WIFE'S DIARY describes a psychologically complex man whose character belies the popular, banal portrait of Bunin as a serene creator. The action of the story travels across France, Sweden and Germany of the 1930s to 1950s, but is largely set in the south of France, where Bunin and his family had settled.
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Script: Dunya Smirnova.
Phot.: Yuri Klimenko.
Ed.: Elena Andreeva.
Mus.: Leonid Desuatnikov.
Cast: Andrei Smirnov, Galina Tunina, Olga Budina, Evgeni Mironov, Elena Morosova, Dani Kogan.
Prod.: Alexei Uchitel, Alexander Golutva, Studio �Rock�, 12, Krukov Kanal, Saint-P�tersbourg 190068 (Russie), t�l.: (78-12) 114 20 56, fax: (70-95) 433 67 78, e-mail: [email protected].
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Alexei Uchitel
Born in St. Petersburg in 1951, son of Russian director Efim Uchitel (LENINGRAD IN STRUGGLE, 1942), Alexei Uchitel graduated from the Moscow film academy, VGIK, and joined the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio in 1975. In 1992 he founded the Rock film studio. He has made over twenty-five documentary films of various length, several of them prizewinners in international festivals, including Starting Portrait of an Event (1977), Rock (1988), Mitky in Europe (1991), Obvodny Canal (1991), The Last Hero (1992) and Butterfly (1993). His first feature, THE MANIA OF GISELLE, was shown at the 1995 Montreal World Film Festival. |
