Andrei Nekrasov

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Andrei Nekrasov (Андрей Некрасов) (born 1958) is a Russian film and TV director from Saint Petersburg.

Andrei Nekrasov studied acting and directing at the State Institute for Theatre and Film in his native Saint Petersburg. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, taking a master's degree, and film at Bristol University Film School (RFT). In 1985, he assisted Andrei Tarkovsky during the filming and editing of The Sacrifice. Nekrasov then made several internationally co-produced documentaries and TV arts programs (notably A Russia of One's Own, Pasternak, The Prodigal Son, and Children's Stories: Chechnya). His first drama short Springing Lenin (1993) won the UNESCO prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and in 1997 his first feature Love Is As Strong as Death won the FIPRESCI prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg. The director’s second feature, Lubov and Other Nightmares (2001) won recognition at a great many of festivals all over the world (including Sundance and Berlin) and confirmed his status as a rebel among Russian filmmakers.

Andrei Nekrasov is also a playwright and a theatre director. His German productions (of his own plays) include: Der Spieler (The Gambler) in Euro Theater Central in Bonn and Koenigsberg in the Volksbuehne Theatre in Berlin.

His last film, Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case presents interviews with assassinated former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya. ^[1] The movie carries forward the message that Russian state security service FSB, as a true successor of the KGB, had organized bombings of apartments in Moscow and taking hostages in a Moscow theater, to justify the second war in Chechnya and bring Vladimir Putin to power.

1 Filmography
2 Festivals
3 Prizes and awards
4 Notes
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Filmography

2007 Rebellion. The Litvinenko Case, 113 min, Documentary, Premiere: Festival de Cannes 2007
2007 My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder, 60 min TV documentary on Alexander Litvinenko (BBC Four Storyville, 22 January 2007)^[2]
2004 Disbelief', Feature documentary, 35mm, 105 min, Dolby SRD, Dreamscanner Prod. Russia-USA (Watch Free on Google Video)
2002 Koenigsberg, Docudrama, HDCam, 120 min, Color and B/W, Dreamscanner, Russia-Germany
2001 Lubov and Other Nightmares, Feature, 35 mm, 97 min, Color and B/W, Dolby SR, Dreamscanner, Russia-Germany
2000 Children’s Stories, Chechnya, documentary , Beta SP, 23 min, Vanessa Redgrave and Dreamscanner, UK-Russia
1997 Love is as strong as Death, Feature, 35 mm, 104 min, Dreamscanner, Russia-UK
1993 Springing Lenin, 35 mm, 23 min, Colour, British Film Institute - BBC
1991 The Prodigal Son, TV, 16 mm, 95min, Colour, BBC-La Sept-ZDF, UK-France-Germany
1990 Pasternak, TV, 35mm, 90 min, Colour, ITV-WDR, UK-Germany-Russia
1989 Raising the Curtain, TV, documentary, 25 min, Channel 4
1988 The Millennium of Incredible Faith, TV, documentary, 16 mm, 60 min, Amaranthos, Greek TV
1987 A Russia of One's Own, TV, 16 mm, 85 min, Colour, Channel 4

[edit] Festivals

Cannes 1993
Sundance Film festival 2002, 2004
Berlin 2001
Sao Paolo 1997, 2001
Rotterdam 2001
Mannheim-Heidelberg 1997
Karlovy Vary 2001
Moscow IFF 2001
Trömso 1997
Göteborg 1997
Cape Town 1998
Ankara International Film Fest 2001
Raindance, London 2002
Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, 2001
Outfest Film Festival, Los Angeles 2002
(among others)

[edit] Prizes and awards

CANNES Film Festival UNESCO Prize 1993 (Springing Lenin, 1993)
FIPRESCI Prize, Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival 1997 (Love is as strong as Death, 1997) 'For the sharp moral and social perspective and the strong, expressive visual language which characterise the film’s view of contemporary reality.'
Channel 4’s sole nomination for the Prix Italia (A Russia of One's Own, 1987)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Kinotavr, Russian International Film Festival 1997 (Love is as strong as Death)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Moscow Russian Film Festival 2001 (Lubov and Other Nightmares, 2001)

"for the innovative film language".

BEST LEAD (female) AWARD Kinotavr, Russian International Film Festival 2001 (Lubov and Other Nightmares)
Nomination for Golden Aries – all Russian film critics prize (Lubov and Other Nightmares, 2001)
SPECIAL MENTION by the Amnesty Jury, Cph:dox, Copenhagen, 2004 (Disbelief]], 2004)
THE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD, Karachi International Film festival, 2005 (Disbelief]], 2004)

His films include the documentary Disbelief]] (Недоверие) on the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. This film is available on DVD only in Russia but however a low resolution is available on Google Video (in English and in Russian).