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	Prospects #98 - Lenfilm's Fall From Grace
		Each step taken seems to span a decade until, finally, when the visitor crosses the threshold into Lenfilm's main sound stage, he finds himself in surroundings that might easily be a studio of the 1920s.
		Most significantly, Lenfilm has made changes to the way that the company markets itself in order to attract lucrative foreign contracts.
		But while the Golden Age of Lenfilm seems an eternity away, he claims to see a faint glint in the distance.
	www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/spbweb/sppress/98/lenfilm.html (922 words)

	Film Studios Incorporate as JSCs / All business news in St. Petersburg / Petersburg CITY / Guide to St. Petersburg, ...
		Lenfilm became a joint-stock company in April, with the state holding 100 percent of the shares.
		Lenfilm's third pavilion will be transformed into a movie theater with two small screens and an exhibition hall.
		Lenfilm, stripped of the copyrights to its film collection, the studio's main revenue source in the recent years, as a result of being re-incorporated as a joint-stock company, provides a variety of services to television companies to make profits.
	petersburgcity.com /news/business/2004/08/13/film_studios_lenfilm (490 words)

	Another Russia
		Aesthetically, the dominant force at Lenfilm in the silent era was the team of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg; Kozintsev especially would remain a major influence on Lenfilm production over the next five decades, and his enormous prestige allowed him to create a space at Lenfilm for outsiders and dissenters.
		Some of the best Lenfilm directors were rarely shown abroad: Ilya Averbach, whose beautiful MONOLOGUE captured the coming generational conflict; Dinara Asanova, maker of hard-hitting, complex social dramas; and Vitaly Melnikov, whose deft combination of comedy and drama always seemed to capture the national mood.
		Alexander Golutva, former head of Lenfilm Studios and currently the First Deputy Minister at the Russian Ministry of Culture in charge of cinema, will be joined for a discussion on the role of Lenfilm in the past and future of Russian filmmaking by directors Lidiya Bobrova, Konstanin Lopushansky, Vitaly Melnikov, and Sergei Selyanov.
	seagullfilms.com /htm/anotherrussia.htm (5139 words)

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		The trip is formally guided by Leonid Rivman, one of the oldest employees of Lenfilm, who never speaks but opens up the studio’s sound stages to the camera which to date have never been seen by the general public.
		Lenfilm is located on land where the Aquarium, the city’s first movie theater, once stood and that association is celebrated in the film.
		Lenfilm’s achievements are an essential part of Russian movie history, but Pozdnyakov’s aim in shooting “Lights in the Stage” wasn’t an educational one.
	www.lenfilm.ru /svet/press/spb_times.htm (605 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - Director Resigns Over Lenfilm Restructuring
		Lenfilm’s Sergeyev, shown in a file photo, says he will leave to protest a plan that will deprive the studio of most of its revenues.
		Sergeyev plans to leave Lenfilm — the country’s oldest film studio, which was founded in 1918 — as of May 1.
		According to the reorganization scheme developed by the Culture Ministry and approved by Putin last April, Lenfilm will be divided into two independent structures in the course of the next three or four months.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/6616 (935 words)

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		In one of Lenfilm's pavilions shootings of "Who was Shakespeare" film take place.
		This will be a panorama of “Lenfilm” workers ahead of the white colonnade with participation of famous film-directors, actors, art-directors and others.
		She acted is such "Lenfilm" movies as "Desant na Oringu" ("The Oringa Landing Party"), "Tri Protsenta riska" ("Three Percent of Risk"), "Pri Otkryrykh Dveryakh" ("With Open Doors"), "Dym" ("Smoke"), "Tsirk Sgorel, i Klouny Razbezhalis" ("The Circus Burned Down and the Clowns Dispersed").
	www.lenfilm.ru /base_en.htm (1009 words)

	Saint Petersburg First Monthly English Review - Neva News
		Julia Ivanova of Neva News converses with Alexander Pozdnyakov of Lenfilm.
		Lenfilm is the oldest film production company in Russia, the cradle of Russian national cinema because everything started here.
		The territory of Lenfilm was originally in the private ownership of the Aquarium Garden, which belonged to the merchant Georgy Alexandrov, who operated here a restaurant, a public garden and a theatre.
	www.nevanews.com /index.php?id_article=7&section=8 (2684 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		Outgoing Director of Lenfilm Viktor Sergeyev speaks to The Moscow Times about planned reforms to Russia's film industry, which, in his opinion, will lead the industry to ruin.
		It would ruin filmmaking in state studios and Lenfilm in particular, and as the studio's director I won't bear that.
		Here are some figures to illustrate how profitable it is to broadcast the classic films: Lenfilm sells the broadcasting rights for around $7,000, but four blocks of advertising sold during the screening of a popular Soviet or Russian film on national television during prime time brings in anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2002/03/08/105.html (1251 words)

	MFA series salutes Russian film studio - The Boston Globe
		The series is curated by Richard Pena and Alla Verlotsky and organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Seagull Films in collaboration with Lenfilm Studios and the Russian State Department of Cinema.
		The Lenfilm legacy dates to 1918, when it quickly began to attract Russia's most visionary filmmakers, including the silent-era team of Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg.
		From the late '50s through the early '70s, Lenfilm attracted several key figures, such as the late poet and lyricist Gennady Shpalikov, who made his only feature film, "A Long Happy Life," for Lenfilm in 1966.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/08/29/mfa_series_salutes_russian_film_studio?mode=PF (777 words)

	Variety.com - Technicolor eyes Lenfilm bid
		Lenfilm, Russia's largest film production facility after Mosfilm, was supposed to be privatized by the end of this year.
		Plans call for a part of the Lenfilm shares to be distributed free ofcharge to studio workers; 5% to be put on sale to studio management at a discount; and another part to be sold at a market price.
		Lenfilm is now run as a production facility for independent producers, and its main source of income is coproduction and service agreements with foreign companies.
	www.variety.com /article/VR100162?categoryid=19&cs=1 (418 words)

	Variety.com - Money woes hurt Lenfilm
		Lenfilm chief Victor Sergeyev told journalists Thursday that the studio had completed only four of a projected 12 pics in 1997, while this year two had been finished -- with no more likely to follow.
		Studio management has addressed an open letter to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, complaining that Lenfilm funding from allocated state sources was lower than the national average.
		Lenfilm receives no support from St. Petersburg authorities, Sergeyev said, while Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov has this year already allocated $15 million for production at Mosfilm, as well as $5 million for upgrading facilities.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117479316 (286 words)

	village voice > film > 'Another Russia: A Tribute to Lenfilm Studios' by Michael Atkinson
		Most of Lenfilm's product has gone unseen by us—West-beloved upstarts like Dovzhenko, Kalatozov, Paradjanov, and Tarkovsky either stuck to Moscow or worked in the ethnic outlands—but any cross section of its legacy, like the Walter Reade series beginning this Friday, reveals a torrent of iconoclasm and rebellious style.
		Lenfilm movies have had their occasional day in the international sun (Heifits's lovely 1959 Chekhov adaptation, The Lady With the Little Dog, won multiple prizes at Cannes), but its only sustained megastar is Alexander Sokurov.
		Here, the incredibly popular Russian Ark (2002) is a reflexive choice, as is his new film, Father and Son (2003), a companion piece to his lyric Mother and Son (1997), and a disarmingly intimate interrogation of generational ambivalence that will raise as many questions as its terminal sister-film answered.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0345/atkinson.php (391 words)

	Another Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Aesthetically, the dominant force at Lenfilm in the silent era was the team of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg (The New Babylon); Kozintsev especially would remain a major influence on Lenfilm production over the next five decades, and his enormous prestige allowed him to create a space at Lenfilm for outsiders and dissenters.
		Some of the best Lenfilm directors were rarely shown abroad: for example, Vitaly Melnikov (Mama Got Married), whose deft combination of comedy and drama always seemed to capture the national mood.
		With the coming of perestroika in the mid-80s, Lenfilm again became the headquarters for an exciting, new, even more sceptical generation of filmmakers: Sergei Selyanov, Lidia Bobrova (In That Land), Konstantin Lopushansky (Letters from a Dead Man), and especially Alexander Sokurov (The Second Circle, Russian Ark).
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /JulyAugust04/AnotherRussia.html (1799 words)

	Variety.com - Lenfilm expects to be privatized
		Sitting in the executive wing of Lenfilm, a brand-new container building that sticks out like a beacon among the crumbling buildings on the lotThe Lot, Lenfilm's foreign relations execexec Viktor Makhov told Variety that privatization is imminent.
		Lenfilm will become self-controlled as a result of privatization, predicts Makhov, with studio toppertopper Nicholaus Ourzhoumtsev remaining at the helmhelm.
		As a prelude to privatization, Lenfilm is reducing staff from 2,500 to a target 1,500.
	www.variety.com /article/VR103733?categoryid=13&cs=1 (350 words)

	sokourov-movie
		With Tarkovsky's recommendation letter Sokurov was employed by the film studio “Lenfilm” in 1980, where he worked on his first feature films.
		Born in Siberia into a military family that was always on the move, he spent his childhood in Poland, his youth in Turkistan, and his university years in Gorky and Moscow before settling down in St. Petersburg to work at the Lenfilm Studios on documentaries and feature films.
		In the case of The Summer Of Maria Voynova, or Maria (1978/88), a portrait of an exploited woman labourer on a collective farm, he had to wait a decade for his film to be released in its uncut version.
	www.claudioferrarini.it /immagini/sokurovmovie.html (4351 words)

	NEW HORIZONS - SPOTLIGHT
		The term elegy, suggesting as it does a moving or nostalgic lyricism, effectively places these films at the side of poetry and music."In the Elegies", Sokurov explains, "my romantic idea that film is another form of the probably shines through".
		This is the story of a young man's confrontation with the sudden death of his father, as he undertakes the painful duty of arranging the burial.
		This is a story about the deep affection which exists between a mother and her son.
	www.filmfestival.gr /1997/new_horizons/spotlight/sokurov.html (1010 words)

	Variety : Lenfilm gets new lease on life via library.(improved finances and production at Russia's Lenfilm ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		MOSCOW Stages at St. Petersburg-based Lenfilm are returning to life after financial problems had all but shut down local production.
		The deal, brokered for an undisclosed sum back in 1997, has improved the studio's finances, allowing it to go ahead with preparation of pics before state coin is transferred.
		Read 'Variety: Lenfilm gets new lease on life via library.(improved finances and production at Russia's Lenfilm studio)(Brief Article)' with a FREE Trial for instant access »
	static.highbeam.com /v/variety/november221999/lenfilmgetsnewleaseonlifevialibraryimprovedfinance (258 words)

	Cash-Strapped Lenfilm Goes to the Car Wash
		PETERSBURG -- Lenfilm, Russia's oldest movie studio, is getting into the car wash business to raise desperately needed cash.
		The famous film complex is planning to set up a network of more than 20 German-made automated car washing machines on roads around St. Petersburg using a city council-underwritten loan of $3 million.
		You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1997/04/01/038.html (188 words)

	Toronto International Film Festival Group
		In the wake of the Bolsheviks’ victory in 1918, Lenfilm Studio established a reputation for attracting "free spirits" who gravitated to the new Soviet cinema.
		From the late 50's through the early 70's, Lenfilm added several key figures, such as 60's cultural icon Gennadi Shpalikov, whose only feature film, A LONG HAPPY LIFE was made for the studio in 1966.
		In the mid-80's through today, Lenfilm has become the headquarters for such influential filmmakers as Sergei Sleyanov, Lidia Bobrova, Konstantin Lopushansky, and most famously, Alexander Sokurov.
	www.tiffg.ca /content/mediacentre/viewrelease.asp?recordId=83 (806 words)

	"RussianDVD" - лучшее русское аудио и видео (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He is still the same Melnikov, the seventy-five-year-old classical creator of Lenfilm’s “people’s cinema”;, whose films "The Head of Chukotka", “Hello and Farewell”, “To Marry a Captain” and a number of other pleasing features with an unpretentious plot, are typified by a sympathy towards decent ordinary people.
		I would also like to note that the feature reveals the brilliant camera work of Sergey Astakhov; as to the work of the artist Alexander Zagoskin and costume artist Larissa Konnikova is worthy of the highest rewards and is really wonderful.
		The film about the poor Pavel does not look poor at all – as before, necessity is the mother of all the Lenfilm inventions.
	www.russiandvd.com /store/newsreport.asp?id={F65BF828-5BE8-4397-A97F-EE98FAD0BCB6} (1358 words)

	Article ã copyright American Cinematographer May, 1987
		It has also focused the spotlight upon the film's director of photography, Yasha Sklansky, despite the fact that his name was removed from the credits when the new titles (bearing a 1985 date) were made up.
		He was a cinematographer and sometime director of numerous features, TV films, and documentaries as well as a teacher in the advanced training program at Lenfilm Studio in Leningrad.
		The state's umbrage was aroused not only because the turncoat was treated as a hero hut because the Russians who had surrendered to the Germans--regarded as traitors by the Stalinist regime -- were shown in a sympathetic light.
	www.commiecam.com /sklansky.html (5438 words)

	Globus Film Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Yermolayev started his career in film in the sound department at Lenfilm studios at the age of 16.
		Along with the clout gained by other projects, the film meant Globus Film was able to beat both Lenfilm and Nikita Mikhalkov's 3T studios in the "Goldeneye" tender.
		In early 1995, work began on the gargantuan shoot of the St. Petersburg scenes of the film, in which Pierce Brosnan's Bond wreaks havoc as he careers around the city in a tank.
	www.globusfilm.com /press-sptimes-2002.html (753 words)

	Vladimir Persov. Group. The Island of Sokurov. An official site of Alexander Sokurov
		Since 1969 at Lenfilm: technician servicing sound equipment, assistant to the sound engineer, sound engineer, executive producer for Sokurov's groups "Northern Foundation" and "Bereg".
		Volk Award for the Best Sound in Lenfilm Studio in the Film "Dni Zatmeniya" (Days of the Eclipse).
		Volk Award for the Best Sound in Lenfilm Studio in the Film "Mat' i Syn" (Mother and Son).
	www.sokurov.spb.ru /island_en/crew/crw_05.html (279 words)

	Another Russia: a tribute to Lenfilm Studios in New-York / All culture news of St. Petersburg / Petersburg CITY / Guide ...
		Another Russia: a tribute to Lenfilm Studios in New-York / All culture news of St. Petersburg / Petersburg CITY / Guide to St. Petersburg, Russia
		"Another Russia: a tribute to Lenfilm Studios" program is presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with Lenfilm Studios in Lincoln Center in New-York.
		The program includes such films as "Twenty days without war", "Father and son", "Second circle" by Sokurov, "King Lear" by Kozintsev and many other famous films.
	petersburgcity.com /news/culture/2003/11/12/lenfilm (432 words)

	Movies \| Hollywood east
		They still make movies at Lenfilm (although Leningrad is St. Petersburg again), and during the course of the next six weeks, the Museum of Fine Arts will present 10 that were made there between 1926 and 1997, in a series called "Russian Cinema Past and Present: A Tribute to Lenfilm Studios."
		The final scenes take place near mass graves in a heavy rain that seems to use the history of the Commune to predict the Soviet Union’s future, as if Kozintsev and Trauberg had glimpsed the empty, muddy fields that the revolutionary carnival would leave in its wake.
		Fittingly, Lenfilm was an amusement park before it was a movie studio.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/04091505.asp (1074 words)

	Kinoeye \| Russia: Aleksei German (Alexei Gherman) interviewed
		His first film, Sedmoi sputnik (The Seventh Companion, 1967), codirected with Grigory Aronov,[4] was based on a novel with the same title by Boris Lavrenyov[5] and is set in the decisive historical years of 1918-19.
		The head of the Lenfilm Studio found himself in a very difficult situation.
		A realistic war film with a tragic ending, it depicts the heroics of a group of army reconnaissance soldiers behind the German lines who keep their radio transmitter operating for four days before being silenced by the enemy.
	www.kinoeye.org /04/04/holloway04.php (13514 words)

	Another Russia Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Russian Ark director Alexander Sokurov has been Lenfilm Studios's brightest international star for the past 15 years.
		The evenhanded treatment of social class and social problems proved contentious; much of the orthodox press ignored the film, although Pravda's reviewer championed its many virtues - truthfulness, simplicity, lyricism, humour - and criticized efforts to suppress it.
		The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York recently described Ermler, who spent most of his career at Lenfilm, as "one of the many Soviet-era artists in need of serious re-evaluation (or just plain discovery)." This rare gem (and Katka's Reinette Apples, the other Ermler film in this series) shows why.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /JulyAugust04/AnotherRussia2.html (1463 words)

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