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Viktor Kossakovsky

Viktor Kossakovsky

Viktor Kossakovsky was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1961. Began working as an assistant camera operator, assistant director, and editor at the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Studio for Documentary Films. From 1986-1988, he studied at the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors. Winner of more than a hundred prizes at Russian and international festivals.

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Architecton (2024)

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow? ...

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Gunda (2021)

A glimpse into the raw and simple power of nature through encounters with farm animals: the eponymous Gunda, a mother pig; two cows, and a one-legged chicken. ...

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69 Minutes of 86 Days (2017)

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala. ...

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Graine de champion (2016)

Ruben lives in Denmark, Nastya in Russia, Chikara in Japan, and all practice high-level sports. For one, managing stress and defeat proves difficult. For the other, relentless training is tough, and for the last, not disappointing his father's hopes is par ...

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Varicella (2015)

Seven-year-old Polina and her 13-year-old sister Nastia live and breathe ballet. Both of them are studying at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in frigid Saint Petersburg. They're currently awaiting their grades to find out if they've done well enough to be p ...

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Short Plays (2014)

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world. ...

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Demonstration (2013)

Remarkable footage of a Barcelona anti-austerity demonstration – and its quelling – shaped into a lyrical tribute to the spirit of protest by Victor Kossakovsky ( ¡Vivan las Antipodas!) and 32 Spanish film students. ...

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Lullaby: The Phenomenon of Sleeping Near A.T.M. Machines (2012)

The filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky on homeless people sleeping near A.T.M.'s in a bank, a growing phenomenon in Europe. ...

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¡Vivan las Antipodas! (2011)

What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the e ...

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Sacredly (2005)

In Russian, "Svyato" means "happy". But it is also a nickname for Svyatoslav, the son of director Kossakovsky, who for two years covered mirrors from Svyato. For the first time in his life, Svyato is going to watch himself on a mirror. ...

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Hush! (2003)

The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary. ...

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Kindergarten (First Romance) (2000)

The toddlers in a Russian playgroup are showing a striking number of adult traits. Here and there, serious romantic relationships are budding, and some tots are determined to marry. One infant may urge her friend to keep his voice low, or else the filmmake ...

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I Loved You (2000)

Trilogy about love, experienced at different moments in life, by different people: an old couple, a young couple and two children at infant school. ...

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Pavel and Lyalya (A Jerusalem Romance) (1998)

"Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left wing…" The life and art of Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two famous Leningrad documentary filmmakers, can best be ex ...

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Wednesday (1997)

Victor Kossakovsky searched obsessively for inhabitants of St. Petersburg who were born on Wednesday 19 July 1961, his own birthday, in former Leningrad. Fifty-one women and fifty men fitted the profile. In the course of time a few of these 101 people had ...

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Borowitschi (1997)

An insight into life in the small Russian town of Borovichi. ...

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The Belovs (1992)

Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest a ...

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Losev (1989)

Director Victor Kossakovsky dedicated his documentary debut to the Russian philosopher and religious thinker Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988), who died shortly after the completion of the film. ...

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Where the Condors Fly (2012)

In his film, the Chilean film director accompanies Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky during the shooting of his latest film. In Patagonia, at Lake Baikal and in Shanghai, Victor Kossakovsky explores the singular relationships between places and people o ...

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