Gosfil'mofond's Belye Stolby Festival Revives Shelved Soviet and International Film Archives
From February 1-6, 2010, the 14th Gosfil'mofond Festival was held at the State Film Fund's archive in Belye Stolby, Russia. This festival showcases retired prints from a vast collection exceeding 65,000 titles, with approximately 1,000 films added each year. Artistic director Vladimir Dmitriev emphasized the 'Archival Rarities' segment. Uzbek filmmaker Ali Khamraev referred to the archive as a 'mausoleum of film.' The event featured thematic blocks such as 'The Forbidden Yefim Dzigan' and premiered Dzigan's film 'Vsegda na-cheku' from 1972-73. Notable rediscoveries included Dzhemma Firsova's 1966 short and American film 'The Force of Evil.' Historian Valerii Fomin led a roundtable discussing wartime chronicles. Established in 1948, Gosfil'mofond is state-funded and won a State prize in 2007.
Key facts
- The 14th Gosfil'mofond Festival ran February 1-6, 2010 in Belye Stolby, Russia.
- Gosfil'mofond is the State Film Fund, one of the world's largest film archives with over 65,000 titles.
- The archive holds pre-revolutionary Russian films, Soviet works, and part of the Nazi Reichsfilmarchiv.
- Uzbek director Ali Khamraev called the archive a 'mausoleum of film,' comparing it to Lenin's mausoleum.
- The festival premiered Yefim Dzigan's never-released 1972-73 film 'Vsegda na-cheku' (On the Watch).
- Artistic director Vladimir Dmitriev stressed the growing role of the 'Archival Rarities' section for reconstructions.
- A 2007 State prize honored archive director Nikolai Borodachev, deputy Vladimir Dmitriev, and specialist Irina Vasina.
- The archive adds about 1,000 new films annually and is directly funded by the Russian government.
Entities
Artists
- Natascha Drubek-Meyer
- Ali Khamraev
- Nikolai Borodachev
- Vladimir Dmitriev
- Irina Vasina
- Yefim Dzigan
- Dzhemma Firsova
- Vasilii Aksënov
- Abraham Polonsky
- Frank Borzage
- Vladimír Opěla
- Hans-Joachim Schlegel
- Kadzuo Yamada
- Natalia Nusinova
- Sergei Kapterev
- Valeri Bosenko
- Olga Tschechowa/Chekhova
- Mikhail Tchekhov/Chekhov
- Viacheslav Tikhonov
- Sergei Solov'ëv
- Nikolai Maiorov
- Nikolai Izvolov
- Grigorii Aleksandrov
- Esfir' Šub
- Mikhail Romm
- Yael Hersonski
- Ivan Dykhovychnyi
- Natalia Iakovleva
- Galina Krasnoborova
- Igor' Khomskii
- Il'a Kazankov
- A. Evsiukov
- Valerii Fomin
- Aleksandr Deriabin
- S. Pustynskaya
- Maja Turovskaia
- Wolfgang Beilenhoff
- Sabine Hänsgen
- Karin Mundt
- Christa Blümlinger
- Jay Leyda
Institutions
- Gosfil'mofond
- State Film Fund
- National Film Archive, Prague
- VGIK (State Film School)
- Boehlau Verlag
- ARTMargins Online
- University of Regensburg
- Reichsfilmarchiv
- Deutsche Wochenschau
- Echo of Moscow
- International Moscow Film Festival
Locations
- Belye Stolby
- Russia
- Moscow
- Domodedovo Airport
- Sofia
- Vítkov
- Prague
- Czech
- Germany
- Japan
- United States
- USA
- Crimea
- Harbin
- Mandzhuria
- Israel
- London
- Lithuania
- Regensburg
Sources
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