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Lenfilm

December 27, 2022

Lenfilm (Russian: Ленфильм) is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name).[3] It is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners and several private film studios which operate on the premises. Since October 2012, the Chairman of the board of directors is Fyodor Bondarchuk.[4]

Kinostudiya LenFilm
TypeCorporation
IndustryFilm industry
Founded1914[1]
HeadquartersSt. Petersburg, Russia
Key people
Eduard Pichugin (Director-General)
ProductsMotion pictures
television programs
OwnerFederal Agency for State Property Management[2]
Websitewww.lenfilm.ru

History

Before Lenfilm

St. Petersburg was home to several Russian and French film studios since the early 1900s. In 1908, St. Petersburg businessman Vladislav Karpinsky opened his film factory Omnium Film, which produced documentaries and feature films for local theatres. During the 1910s, one of the most active private film studios was Neptun in St. Petersburg, where such figures as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik made their first silent films, released in 1917 and 1918.

Lenfilm's property was originally under the private ownership of the Aquarium garden, which belonged to the merchant Georgy Alexandrov, who operated a restaurant, a public garden and a theatre on the same site. Composer Peter Tchaikovsky came to what was then the Aquarium theatre (and is now Stage # 4 of Lenfilm) as a guest to the 1893 performance of the overture to his ballet The Nutcracker. Famous Russian bass singer Feodor Chaliapin performed there in the 1910s and the early 1920s. Stars of the Soviet era also gave performances there, such as Isaak Dunaevsky, and Leonid Utyosov with his jazz band during the 1920s and 1930s.[5]

Petrograd and Leningrad film industry

The facilities and land of the Leningrad film studio were nationalized in 1918 and it was established as a Soviet state-funded film industry. Within just a few years it bore several different names, such as Petrograd Cinema Committee and SevZapKino, among various others. In 1923 the nationalized Aquarium garden was merged with SevZapKino and several smaller studios to form the Soviet state-controlled film industry in St. Petersburg.[6] During 1924–1926 it was temporarily named Leningrad Film Factory Goskino and eventually changed its name several times during the 1920s and 1930s.

At that time many notable filmmakers, writers, and actors were active at the studio, such as Yevgeni Zamyatin, Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Kheifets, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Yutkevich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Akimov, Yuri Tynyanov, Veniamin Kaverin, Viktor Shklovsky, and the writers of Serapion Brothers, as well as many other figures of Russian and Soviet culture.[citation needed]

Lenfilm

 
The black-and-white version of the Lenfilm logo as it appears in Twenty Days Without War (1976)

Since 1934 the studio has been named Lenfilm.

During the Soviet era, Lenfilm was the second-largest (after Mosfilm) production branch of the Soviet film industry, which incorporated more than 30 film studios located across the former Soviet Union.

During World War II and the Siege of Leningrad, very few cinematographers remained active in the besieged Leningrad and made film documentaries about the heroic fight against the Nazis. At the same time, most personnel and production units of the Lenfilm studio were evacuated to cities in Central Asia, such as Alma-Ata (1942) and Samarkand. There Lenfilm temporarily merged with other Soviet film studios into the Central United Film Studio (TsOKS). Lenfilm returned to Leningrad in 1944.[citation needed]

Today in the Aquarium Theater there is a stage where many famous Lenfilm pictures were shot and many film stars played their roles. In 1975 George Cukor made a film there called The Blue Bird. Elizabeth Taylor was there, playing Queen of light in that film. Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner also worked there, at Stage # 4, the prior Aquarium Theatre. Orlando was partly filmed there with Tilda Swinton. Afghan Breakdown was shot there by Vladimir Bortko, with Michele Placido, who plays a Russian colonel. In the beginning of the 1990s there were about a dozen famous American scriptwriters and Oscar-winning actors and actresses who worked with Lenfilm.[citation needed]

By the end of the Soviet Union era, Lenfilm had produced about 1,500 films. Many film classics were produced at Lenfilm throughout its history and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals.

Today

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lenfilm became a quasi-private film production company of Russia, retaining its name in spite of renaming of the city of Leningrad to St. Petersburg.

Lenfilm is tightly connected with world celebrities, such as those mentioned as well as Jane Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Marina Vlady, Julia Ormond, Michael Caine, William Hurt, Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Sandrine Bonnaire, Gérard Philipe, and with many great Russians, such as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Ney, Kirill Lavrov, Daniil Granin, Pavel Kadochnikov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, and Sergey Kuryokhin.[citation needed]

In 2004 Kinostudiya Lenfilm was re-organized into a privately owned company.

In 2007 Kinostudiya Lenfilm, together with Apple IMC, opened the Apple post-production training centre for filmmakers, where Apple computers are used for editing and special effects, as well as for training and certification of film editors in Final Cut Pro 5.1 and other Apple programs.

Timeline and selected filmography

See Category:Lenfilm films

References

  1. ^ "Официальный сайт киностудии Ленфильм". www.lenfilm.ru. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Раскрытие информации в сети Интернет". disclosure.ru. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  3. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 401–403. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  4. ^ Федор Бондарчук возглавил «Ленфильм»
  5. ^ "История". www.lenfilm.ru. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Компания Киностудия "Ленфильм". Контакты, описание, вакансии и отзывы о компании Киностудия "Ленфильм"". whoiswho.dp.ru. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

External links

  • Lenfilm official site

December 27, 2022
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Lenfilm Russian Lenfilm is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991 thus the name 3 It is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners and several private film studios which operate on the premises Since October 2012 the Chairman of the board of directors is Fyodor Bondarchuk 4 Kinostudiya LenFilmTypeCorporationIndustryFilm industryFounded1914 1 HeadquartersSt Petersburg RussiaKey peopleEduard Pichugin Director General ProductsMotion pictures television programsOwnerFederal Agency for State Property Management 2 Websitewww wbr lenfilm wbr ru Contents 1 History 1 1 Before Lenfilm 1 2 Petrograd and Leningrad film industry 1 3 Lenfilm 1 4 Today 2 Timeline and selected filmography 3 References 4 External linksHistory EditBefore Lenfilm Edit St Petersburg was home to several Russian and French film studios since the early 1900s In 1908 St Petersburg businessman Vladislav Karpinsky opened his film factory Omnium Film which produced documentaries and feature films for local theatres During the 1910s one of the most active private film studios was Neptun in St Petersburg where such figures as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik made their first silent films released in 1917 and 1918 Lenfilm s property was originally under the private ownership of the Aquarium garden which belonged to the merchant Georgy Alexandrov who operated a restaurant a public garden and a theatre on the same site Composer Peter Tchaikovsky came to what was then the Aquarium theatre and is now Stage 4 of Lenfilm as a guest to the 1893 performance of the overture to his ballet The Nutcracker Famous Russian bass singer Feodor Chaliapin performed there in the 1910s and the early 1920s Stars of the Soviet era also gave performances there such as Isaak Dunaevsky and Leonid Utyosov with his jazz band during the 1920s and 1930s 5 Petrograd and Leningrad film industry Edit The facilities and land of the Leningrad film studio were nationalized in 1918 and it was established as a Soviet state funded film industry Within just a few years it bore several different names such as Petrograd Cinema Committee and SevZapKino among various others In 1923 the nationalized Aquarium garden was merged with SevZapKino and several smaller studios to form the Soviet state controlled film industry in St Petersburg 6 During 1924 1926 it was temporarily named Leningrad Film Factory Goskino and eventually changed its name several times during the 1920s and 1930s At that time many notable filmmakers writers and actors were active at the studio such as Yevgeni Zamyatin Grigori Kozintsev Iosif Kheifets Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Yutkevich Dmitri Shostakovich Nikolai Akimov Yuri Tynyanov Veniamin Kaverin Viktor Shklovsky and the writers of Serapion Brothers as well as many other figures of Russian and Soviet culture citation needed Lenfilm Edit The black and white version of the Lenfilm logo as it appears in Twenty Days Without War 1976 Since 1934 the studio has been named Lenfilm During the Soviet era Lenfilm was the second largest after Mosfilm production branch of the Soviet film industry which incorporated more than 30 film studios located across the former Soviet Union During World War II and the Siege of Leningrad very few cinematographers remained active in the besieged Leningrad and made film documentaries about the heroic fight against the Nazis At the same time most personnel and production units of the Lenfilm studio were evacuated to cities in Central Asia such as Alma Ata 1942 and Samarkand There Lenfilm temporarily merged with other Soviet film studios into the Central United Film Studio TsOKS Lenfilm returned to Leningrad in 1944 citation needed Today in the Aquarium Theater there is a stage where many famous Lenfilm pictures were shot and many film stars played their roles In 1975 George Cukor made a film there called The Blue Bird Elizabeth Taylor was there playing Queen of light in that film Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner also worked there at Stage 4 the prior Aquarium Theatre Orlando was partly filmed there with Tilda Swinton Afghan Breakdown was shot there by Vladimir Bortko with Michele Placido who plays a Russian colonel In the beginning of the 1990s there were about a dozen famous American scriptwriters and Oscar winning actors and actresses who worked with Lenfilm citation needed By the end of the Soviet Union era Lenfilm had produced about 1 500 films Many film classics were produced at Lenfilm throughout its history and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals Today Edit After the dissolution of the Soviet Union Lenfilm became a quasi private film production company of Russia retaining its name in spite of renaming of the city of Leningrad to St Petersburg Lenfilm is tightly connected with world celebrities such as those mentioned as well as Jane Fonda Maximilian Schell Marina Vlady Julia Ormond Michael Caine William Hurt Sophie Marceau Sean Bean Sandrine Bonnaire Gerard Philipe and with many great Russians such as Vladimir Mayakovsky Dmitri Shostakovich Alexander Ney Kirill Lavrov Daniil Granin Pavel Kadochnikov Aleksandr Demyanenko and Sergey Kuryokhin citation needed In 2004 Kinostudiya Lenfilm was re organized into a privately owned company In 2007 Kinostudiya Lenfilm together with Apple IMC opened the Apple post production training centre for filmmakers where Apple computers are used for editing and special effects as well as for training and certification of film editors in Final Cut Pro 5 1 and other Apple programs Timeline and selected filmography EditSee Category Lenfilm films 1934 Chapaev Chapaev directed by Brothers Vasilyev 1947 Zolushka Zolushka film adaptation of Cinderella 1949 Alexander Popov Aleksandr Popov biographical film 1954 The Boys from Leningrad Zapasnoj igrok starring Georgi Vitsin Vsevolod Kuznetsov and Pavel Kadochnikov 1956 Old Khottabych akaThe Flying Carpet Starik Hottabych directed by Gennadi Kazansky starring Nikolai Volkov and Alesha Litvinov 1960 The Lady with the Dog Dama s sobachkoj directed by Iosif Kheifets starring Iya Savvina and Aleksey Batalov 1960 The Queen of Spades Pikovaya dama film adaptation 1962 Amphibian Man Chelovek amfibiya film adaptation directed by Gennadi Kazansky starring Anastasiya Vertinskaya and Mikhail Kozakov 1963 Kain XVIII Kain XVIII directed by Erast Garin film adaptation 1964 Hamlet Gamlet directed by Grigori Kozintsev drama the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 nominated and Special Jury Prize winner 1968 Dead Season Myortvyj sezon spy film directed by Savva Kulish and starring Donatas Banionis and Rolan Bykov 1969 Prince Igor directed by Roman Tikhomirov and starring Boris Khmelnitsky 1970 Franz Liszt Dreams of love Ferenc List drama directed by Marton Keleti and starring Imre Sinkovits and Ariadna Shengelaya 1971 Dauria Dauriya directed by Viktor Tregubovich film adaptation starring Vitaly Solomin and Yefim Kopelyan 1976 The Blue Bird Sinyaya ptica directed by George Cukor film adaptation starring Elizabeth Taylor 1976 Twenty Days Without War Dvadcat dnej bez vojny directed by Aleksei German 1978 The Lonely Voice of Man Odinokij golos cheloveka directed by Alexander Sokurov drama 1980 The Degraded Razzhalovannyj directed by Alexander Sokurov short film 1981 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sobaka Baskervilej directed by Igor Maslennikov film adaptation 1982 The Queen of Spades Pikovaya dama directed by Igor Maslennikov film adaptation 1982 Golos Golos directed by Ilya Averbakh drama starring Natalya Sayko and Leonid Filatov 1983 Painful Indifference Skorbnoe beschuvstvie directed by Alexander Sokurov war film 1986 Empire Ampir directed by Alexander Sokurov short film 1987 Dead Man s Letters Pisma myortvogo cheloveka sci fi 1989 Vagrant Bus The Stray Bus directed by Joseph Kheifits drama 1990 Taxi Blues co production 1991 Afghan Breakdown Afganskij izlom war film 1991 My best friend General Vasili son of Joseph Stalin Moj luchshij drug general Vasilij syn Iosifa directed by Viktor Sadovsky drama starring Boris Schcherbakov and Vladimir Steklov 1995 Peculiarities of the National Hunt Osobennosti nacionalnoj ohoty comedy directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin 1996 Anna Karenina Anna Karenina directed by Bernard Rose drama starring Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean with Alfred Molina and Mia Kirshner 2010 The Amazing Race 17 had a task in which the teams had to search through piles of filmstrips for a filmstrip from October 2011 The White Guard Belaya gvardiya first adaption of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov with Konstantin Khabensky and Mikhail Porechenkov Directed by Sergey Snezhkin 2012 Sherlock Holmes Sherlok Holms TV series directed by Andrey Kavun starring Igor Petrenko Andrei Panin Mikhail Boyarsky and Ingeborga Dapkunaite 2012 Idolatress Poklonnica 2013 Hard to be a God Trudno byt bogom 2015 Catherine the Great directed by Igor Zaitsev 2017 Bird Ptica comedy drama directed by Ksenia BaskakovaReferences Edit Oficialnyj sajt kinostudii Lenfilm www lenfilm ru Retrieved 19 July 2016 Raskrytie informacii v seti Internet disclosure ru Retrieved 26 October 2018 Peter Rollberg 2009 Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema US Rowman amp Littlefield pp 401 403 ISBN 978 0 8108 6072 8 Fedor Bondarchuk vozglavil Lenfilm Istoriya www lenfilm ru Retrieved 20 July 2016 Kompaniya Kinostudiya Lenfilm Kontakty opisanie vakansii i otzyvy o kompanii Kinostudiya Lenfilm whoiswho dp ru Retrieved 2 September 2016 External links EditLenfilm official site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lenfilm amp oldid 1128697688, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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