- year : 2021
- country : Russia
- timing : 68:58'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Alla Damsker
written by Alla Damsker
produced by Anatoly Bely, Alla Damsker
DoPs Alexey Kobtsev, Alexander Polagaev, Andrey Mann, Vasily Maslennikov
music by S.V. Rachmaninoff, D.D. Shostakovich
sound by Mikhail Firsov
editor Vasily Maslennikov
cast: Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Anatoly Bely, Konstantin Khabensky, Yulia Aug, Alexey Kortnev, Mikhail Kozyrev, Nikolai Solodnikov
In her film "Tsvetaeva.Open", the director responds to accusations hurled at Marina Tsvetaeva. After the discovery of the poet's archives in 2000 for the death of her youngest daughter Irina, a stream of insults was rained down on Tsvetaeva. Based on letters, diaries and archival documents, the filmmakers reveal Tsvetaeva's life from 1917 to 1922 step by step.
- Russian Film Festival in Italy - Premio Felix (2021, Italy, Milan)
- Fresco International Festival of Modern Art and Spiritual Films (2021, Armenia, Yerevan)
- Independent Russian-American Documentary Film Festival (2021, United State, New York)
- Silver SCAD Film Festival (2021, Russia, Sevastopol)
- International Film Festival "Literature and Cinema" (2021, Russia, Gatchina)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Salt of the Earth" (2021, Russia, Samara)
- The Film and Video Poetry Symposium (2021, United States, Los Angeles)
- International Festival of Films and TV Programs "Radonezh", Special Jury Mention (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- International festival "Meetings in Siberia" (2021, Russia, Novosibirsk)
- Moscow International Film Festival "8 Women", Special Prize (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- NIKA National Film Award for 2021, Longlist (2022, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
It is impossible to explain to everyone sputtering with anger online what that tragic time was and what the true motives of Marina Tsvetaeva's actions were. I have no illusions that anyone can be persuaded of anything. I only want to give a chance for another alternative point of view to an inquisitive mind that will doubt all that stream of insults. Tsvetaeva has no heirs left: all of them are either dead or already dead. There is no one to defend her name. You could say I made this film not because I wanted to, but because I couldn't not do it.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Alla Damsker was born on 17.07.1974 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Graduated from Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - "Tsvetaeva.Open", documentary \ debut
