Description
Synopsis:
Alla Demidova’s portrait side by side with the sunken Atlantis of the Soviet cinema.
A fashion icon; an enigmatic heroine of Larisa Shepit’ko and Kira Muratova’s films; a star of the Taganka Theatre, Alla Demidova became an avatar of a whole era – even several eras: from the 60s to the “naughts”. She’s a mystery, a medium for other dimensions. But the film isn’t exactly about her; rather, it isn’t entirely about her. It is about time and her fight against it; about the titans that fate threw her way – Vladimir Vysotsky and Andrey Tarkovsky, Yuri Lyubimov and Anatoly Efros – it is about the lessons of her life. Lyubov’ Arkus’s new documentary is an investigation, an essay – a poem on a cracked, gone world.
About the director:
Lyubov Arkus was born in 1960 in Lviv. After graduating from the screenwriting and film studies faculty of VGIK named after V.I. Gerasimov (workshop of Lydia Zaitseva) she worked as an editor at Lenfilm. In 1989, with the assistance of Alexander Golutva, she founded the «Seance» – magazine about cinema and culture (editor-in-chief until 2020). Now Arkus works as the head of the «Seance» publishing house and the «Chapaev» (educational project). In 2012, she made her directorial debut with the documentary Anton’s Right Here, which won many awards and became the starting point for the creation of the fund of the same name. It works to help people on the autistic spectrum in St. Petersburg.