IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India

IFFI-2008
COMPETITION
2008, 35 mm, Colour, 105 mins, Russian
Russia
The Vanished Empire
The film's story takes place in Moscow in the 1970s. Its plot unfolds around the love
triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue,
make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal
lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live
will soon disappear from the map. This film depicts the Soviet State at the peak of its
power, which marks the starting point of its collapse as well, and presents a delicate study
of this imminent and irrevocably passing era.
Director
Karen Shakhnazarov
Screenplay
Sergey Rokotov, Evgeny Nikishov
Cinematography
Shandor Berkeshi
Music
Konstantin Shevelev
Cast
Alexander Lyapin, Lidia Milyuzina, Egor Baranovsky, Ivan
Jupreenko, Olga Tumaikina, Armen Jigarkhanyan, Vladimir
Ilyin
Art
Lyudmila Kusakova
Costumes
Ludmila Kusakova
Production & Sales
"Mosfilm" Cinema Concern
Moscow 119991, Russia
T: 00749914397000
F: 0074997830253
Email: simagin@mosfilm.ru
The 1952-bron Karen Shakhnazarov is the general director of Mosfilm Cinema
Concern. Film director, script writer, director and presenter of TV programmes, he is
also an author. Shakhnazarov was the winner of the Laureate of Boris Polevoy Literary
Award for the story Courier (1982), of the Lenin Komsomol Prize for development of
musical comedy genre in the films Jazzmen and A Winter Night in Gagry (1986), laureate
of Vassiliev Brothers' State Prize of the Russian Federation for feature film Courier
(1988), Laureate of State Prize of the Russian Federation for the film Zvezda (The Star)
in 2002.
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