Vitaly Mansky

Родные

Vitaly Mansky

Vitaly Mansky’s intimate and insightful new documentary finds him crisscrossing the Ukraine in the wake of the Maidan uprising, which has left his relatives scattered on both sides of a highly charged and dizzyingly complex political situation.

Under the Sun

Vitaly Mansky

Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong

Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.

Brodvey. Chernoe more

Vitaly Mansky

Refugees from the Caucasian republics, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Russians, meet on the shore of the Black Sea: they work as shop keepers, life guards, karaoke singers, or just enjoy their holidays. It all happens at a place called Broadway, which is no-where to be found on a map, not even the most detailed ones. The temporary inhabitants of Broadway construct a whole world en miniature, consisting of small carts, tents or booths parked in close, haphazard rows. The scenery, which is put up for a few weeks during the summer, bubbles with life – and in no way corresponds with ordinary daily life in Russia.

Patria O Muerte

Vitaly Mansky

Using Cuban cities as the backdrop to personal stories, the renowned documentary maker Vitaly Mansky depicts the complexity of contemporary Cuba. As the regime begins to slightly relax its iron grip, the island begins to slowly open up to the world. Despite the economic hardship, a life full of passion, temperament and energy still pulsates in Cuban cities. Food is rationed and decent living conditions is an illusion for many. The dreams of today’s senior citizens, who believed in Fidel and his communist experiment 50 years ago, have not been fully realized. Children of these revolutionaries still follow the ideals of the revolution but do not seem all that convinced. Instead young people prefer to enjoy small pleasures the regime allows for. While many Cubans look for life outside of Cuba, for tourists the island is for many reasons very special destination. Motherland or Death is the story of real life played out against the picturesque background of today’s Cuba.

Наша Родина

Vitaly Mansky

"Gagarin’s Pioneers" is a journey of the director in search of his classmates from the 52nd school of the city of Lviv, with whom he studied in Soviet times. These are thirty-three short films about the author's thirty-three classmates. Today, several people still live in Lviv. The rest have gone all over the world. What unites the former pioneers of the Gagarin detachment now? What is the Motherland for them today, to which they swore an oath when they joined the pioneers in the spring of 1973?

Свидетели Путина

Vitaly Mansky

Vitaly Mansky, Boris Nemtsov

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.

Труба

Vitaly Mansky

Director Vitaly Manskiy sets off on the trail of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline to find out what it’s like for ordinary people living in its vicinity. This visually refined road movie, eloquently illustrating the absurd banality of modern Russia, is also an unsettling portrait of a gas line on which most of Europe is reliant.

Анатомия Т.А.Т.У.

Vitaly Mansky

Julia Volkova, Lena Katina

The true, detailed lives of the girls of the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. as they break through in their promotional tour in America.

Горбачев. Рай

Vitaly Mansky

Mikhail Gorbachev

An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the West but reviled in his own country, still combative despite his advanced age, loneliness and illness, offers his personal and political testament.

Private Chronicles: Monologue

Vitaly Mansky

Aleksandr Tsekalo

The collective life of the generation born as Jurij Gagarin became the first man in space. Vitaly Mansky has woven together a fictional biography – taken from over 5.000 hours of film material, and 20.000 still pictures made for home use. A moving document of the fictional, but nonetheless true life of the generation who grew up in this time of huge change and upheaval.

Rassvet/Zakat. Dalai Lama 14

Vitaly Mansky

Tenzin Gyatso

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this is a day in the life of the Dalai Lama from when he wakes up at 3 a.m. until his bedtime at dusk.

日光之下

Qiu Yang, Vitaly Mansky

One incident occurs, two families tangle. There’s nothing new under the sun.

Девственность

Vitaly Mansky

Aleksandr Tsekalo, Kseniya Borodina

Anything can be sold and bought in our modern world. Virginity too. How much is its worth in dollars? Is it worth keeping till marriage? These are the questions girls ask nowadays. But is virginity the only thing a modern girl is ready to sell? Vitalij Manskij’s film follows the stories of three teenage girls from the provinces who come to Moscow wanting to succeed. Each of them has her own plan. One girl hopes to enter popular reality TV show “House 2”. The second thinks she is the new Madonna, or at least, another Britney Spears. The third girl is ready to sell her virginity to get the money she needs for her studies.

Далай Лама: Рассвет/Закат

Vitaly Mansky

Иконоскоп

Vitaly Mansky

They say that the average Earthling spends about 10 years of his life at the TV screen. It is pointless to ask whether these are lost years - without television, it is impossible to imagine our civilization, although not 100 years have passed since its invention. "Iconoscope" is a chance to cover the entire vast history of television in 100 minutes of exciting and paradoxical spectacle.

Благодать

Vitaly Mansky

The action takes place against the backdrop of the meager life of a decaying Russian village, where several women and an elderly alcoholic man remain. Two old women live here, the youngest of whom, Praskovya, devoted her whole life to her older sister Maria, who stopped growing in her early childhood. The only young woman in the village is expecting a child: everyone believes that from an angel.