On Saturday, the 71st Venice Film Festival ended. The main prize was awarded the film of the Swedish director of the Roy Anderson "Pigeon was sitting on a branch, reflecting on the existence." Well, the second most important prize received the Russian director Andron Konchalovsky - for the picture about the life of the usual Russian province.
The film "White Nights Postman Alexei Ragjitsyn" Andrei Konchalovsky showed at the film festival in the penultimate day of viewing. And even then it was clear: without award, the Russian Master will not leave. The fact that for Russians will seem commonplace, the foreign viewer turned out to be incredibly interesting. Unique types of Russian depths in combination with no less unique poverty - such a product at foreign film festivals has always been convertible.
Konchalovsky himself modestly assures that in fact his merit is that the movie happened as it turned out, in general, and no. "I did not invent anything," the director says. - All roles, except for one, are performed by non-professional artists. Although the words "performed" personally, I tried to avoid: I just put these people in certain circumstances. "
But at the same time, in one of the interviews, Konchalovsky deftly quoted Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, who assured that you can write about the ashtray. So boring stories do not happen, there are boring storytellers. And Konchalovsky's talent, of course, is that he knows how to present the most ordinary story so that it is impossible not to mark it. And here is the result - the next reward in the film director. "Silver Lion" of the Venetian film festival is one of the most famous film festivals in the world. "I am glad that the picture, filmed on the knee, for the minimum money, turned out to be interesting not only to me and people with whom I worked, but interested someone," the director commented on his next success.