Natalya Ryazantseva

I Am Twenty

Marlen Khutsiyev

Valentin Popov, Nikolai Gubenko

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.

I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman

Sally Potter

Kira Muratova, Natalya Ryazantseva

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film’s title refers to a WWII slogan about women doing the work of absent men in the fields and at home. Featuring Kira Muratova, Natalia Ryazantseva, Inna Churikova, Nonna Mordyukova, and others.

Кира

Vladimir Nepevnyy

Kira Muratova, Aleksandr Sokurov

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

Больше, чем любовь. Такая большая короткая жизнь...

Elena Laskari

Natalya Ryazantseva, German Klimov

This 2012 program exploring the relationship between filmmakers Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov was broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura and features interviews with Klimov’s brother, the writer German Klimov, and screenwriter Natalya Ryazantseva.

Геннадий Шпаликов. Жизнь обаятельного человека

Olesya Fokina

Yuri Norstein, Yuliy Fayt

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film “I walk through Moscow”. At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiyev! Both of these films will be called the manifesto of the generation of the sixties, the symbols of the era called "thaw". All his life he had dreamed of “The Quay” ... This script was his favorite work. But “Berth” was never staged "..." "There is no choice in the USSR. Or you drink, or you freak out, or you are not printed. The fourth is not given.

Острова. Лариса Шепитько

Emilia Tutina, Natalya Ryazantseva

Program on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko was broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura and features interviews with the director’s sister Emilia Tutina and son, Anton Klimov.