Gleb Panfilov

  • Gleb Panfilov – Mat AKA Mother (1990)

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    Mat (1990)
    Mat (1990)

    A movie version of the story by M. Gorky of the same title and some other writer’s works about a dramatic fate of son and mother who join strike and revolutionary struggle in czarist Russia.
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  • Gleb Panfilov – Proshu slova AKA I Wish to Speak (1976)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGleb PanfilovUSSR

    When Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies.Read More »

  • Gleb Panfilov – Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya AKA The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000)

    1991-2000DramaGleb PanfilovRussia

    Quote:
    At a cost of $18m, The Romanovs -The Imperial Family is the biggest budget Russian production in the past ten years. Its first rate production values and breathtakingly beautiful sets and costumes, as well the international reputation of director Gleb Panfilov, should earn it theatrical distribution as well as a wide airing on television.Read More »

  • Gleb Panfilov – V kruge pervom aka First Circle (2006)

    Gleb Panfilov2001-2010DramaRussia

    Plot:
    Innokentii Volodin, a diplomat, makes a telephone call he feels obliged by conscience to make, even though he knows he could be arrested. His call was taped and the NKVD seek to identify who made the call.
    The sharashka prisoners or zeks, work on technical projects to assist state security agencies and generally pander to Stalin’s increasing paranoia. While most are aware of how much better off they are than “regular” gulag prisoners (some of them having come from gulags themselves), some are also conscious of the overwhelming moral dilemma of working to aid a system that is the cause of so much suffering. As Lev Rubin is given the task of identifying the voice in the recorded phone call, he examines printed spectrographs of the voice and compares them with recordings of Volodin and five other suspects…Read More »

  • Gleb Panfilov – Tema AKA The Theme (1979)

    Gleb Panfilov1971-1980DramaUSSR

    A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. He’s convinced his writing is of no lasting value, but he still has an ego, about his work and his masculine appeal. He’s drawn to a museum guide he sees on his first afternoon, and when she appears at dinner, he tries charm. She reads widely, knows his work, loved it once and now finds it trivial; and she says so. He’s stung. The next day, they walk through a cemetery where she talks of a dead peasant’s poems and he grabs an idea of hers as the theme for a new play. She remains indifferent; he’s baffled. So that night he spies on her. All is revealed.Read More »

  • Gleb Panfilov – V ogne broda net AKA There is no Passage through Fire (1967)

    Gleb Panfilov1961-1970DramaUSSRWar

    Tanya Tyotkina is a nurse in a hospital train taking the wounded soldiers from Civil War battle fields. The plain, shy and semi-illiterate young girl sincerely believes in world revolution. She does not realize the importance of the events she is taking part in but wants to express what she sees around her in drawings. Tanya has a rare gift of a true original artist and that makes her death even more tragic.
    “Golden Leopard” and Award to I. Churikova for Best Female Lead at the 22nd IFF in Locarno, Switzerland (1969).
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  • Gleb Panfilov – Proshu slova (1977)

    Gleb Panfilov1971-1980DramaUSSR

    Proshu slova (1977)

    Quote:
    The title is a Russian expression meaning “I wish to speak”. This is one of my three favorite Panfilov films which I consider masterpieces, the other two being “Nachalo” and “Tema”; Panfilov wrote this script by himself it seems. It shows, this film is genius. For me, this is honestly one of the most thought-provoking films of my life. Perfectly written. It is about a family woman who was made the mayor of a town. I am mystified by this film. Not since Tarkovsky have I felt this strange spiritual energy, and that’s saying something. This is the last Panfilov film I saw, I’ve seen five others. The incredible world of the characters is what reminds me of a Tarkovsky movie. This movie is about a family. It could be said to be about a lot of things.Read More »

  • Gleb Panfilov – Nachalo AKA Debut AKA The Beginning (1970)

    1961-1970DramaGleb PanfilovRomanceUSSR

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    Synopsis:
    A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man.Read More »

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