Description
Synopsis:
This film is the second installment (of five) of Igor Shadkhan and Svetlana Voloshina’s project Test for Adults (the first 16-year television observation of children and their parents in the USSR, 1978-1994). There are six television short stories, each dedicated to one of the children who are 10 years old at the time of shooting: Artyom, Julia, Pavel, Alyosha, Sveta, and Alexey. The authors are interested in the psychological portrait of children. The intimate nature of the interview and the delicacy of the interviewer allows them to touch upon difficult topics – loneliness in the hospital, the child’s experiences of parental divorce, the existential fears of children, leadership, attitudes, etc.
About the director:
Igor Abramovich Shadkhan (1940-2014), documentary filmmaker, teacher, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation and the Polish Republic. In 1962 he worked at the Vorkuta, and then Norilsk (1966-1970) television studios. On Leningrad television from 1970 to 1979, in addition to the cycles of television programs and films, he made his most famous work Test for adults (Prize of the Union of Journalists of the USSR). Founder of one of the first independent TV companies Workshop of Igor Shadkhan (1995 to present).
Awards and prizes include the Laurel Branch For contribution to the country’s film history (2006), Tefi (2004, for the documentary series Swimming of the Blind, Black Fire series), and his films have taken part in the film festivals World of Knowledge, Message to Man, Eurasian Television Forum and others.