Oleg Kovalov
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Oleg Kovalov at IFFR
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The Dark Night
Oleg Kovalov | 90' | Russia | World premiere
Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s. With archive footage of ‘kino newsreels’, a script that is loosely based on the utopia -
Kino Rossiji 20 godov: Friedrich Ermler
Oleg Kovalov | 38' | Russia | World premiere
Exhaustive documentary about Friedrich Ermler (1898-1967), a classic Soviet film-maker, primarily comprising fragments from his work. -
Sergei Eisenstein. Mexican Fantasy
Oleg Kovalov | 100' | Russia | -
Intriguing film comprising archive footage about the making of the unfinished feature Que Viva Mexico by Eisenstein, made by the former film-maker in -
Sady skorpiona
Oleg Kovalov | 96' | Russia | -
Sparkling, masterful début by Kovalov is found-footage compilation of e.g. news items, propaganda material and instruction films. -
Russkaya ideya
Sergey Selyanov | 52' | Russia | -
Montage documentary based on screenplay by Kovalov shows the Russian Messianic influence on politics and film in the early years of the revolution. -
Kontsert dlya krysy
Oleg Kovalov | 110' | Russia | -
Kovalov’s first feature is a paranoid grotesque picture of the totalitarian Soviet past, based on the life and work of Daniil Kharms. -
Bumazhnye glaza Prishvina
Valery Ogorodnikov | 150' | USSR | -
Politically-tinted film about the pioneers of Soviet television shows Kovalov as an actor. -
Ostrov myortvykh
Oleg Kovalov | 86' | Russia | -
Film about the tragic, legendary Russian film star Vera Kholdnaya (1893-1919) is compiled from countless films from that age. -
Sergei Eizenshtein. Avtobiografiya
Oleg Kovalov | 90' | Russia | -
New cut of Eisenstein’s films based on personal notes by Eisenstein provides a psychological insight into this Russian master.