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Aleksandr Rastorguev
Aleksandr Rastorguev
Career
Документалист Александр Расторгуев — один из главных режиссеров нашей реальности, хроникер конца света. Погиб в июле 2018 года на съемках в ЦАР. Там, по сведениям СМИ, он снимал фильм о деятельности «Группы Вагнера».
Filmography
17
On April 23, after 11 days of mass protests, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. A film about how the opposition led by Nikol Pashinyan won.
Last day!
7
2018
26 min
The last documentary film by Alexander Rastorguev. The main character Alexandra Strizhenova lives a normal life, argues a lot with her husband, smokes and drinks, dances in front of the camera and dreams of family happiness. Three years later, viewers see her in another house and with another man, but with the same problems. Rastorguev completed both chapters of the film before his death in July 2018 in the Central African Republic. However, the picture is considered unfinished because the director planned to shoot a sequel.
It's been three years
1
2018
76 min
Among those who have taken to the streets of Russian cities in recent months are people of various political views. This is the story of a young Russian nationalist.
National-shkolota
3
2018
24 min
This is a movie about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teenagers take a Cossack upbringing.
Childhood, summer and war
7
2018
36 min
Alexei Navalny began his election campaign in the regions of Russia with a trip to Murmansk. Thousands of citizens came to his rally, and in the rain. This is the success of local activists who organized the rally and campaigned selflessly. Alexander Rastorguev and Dmitry Kuvaldin spent several days with Navalny's Murmansk headquarters coordinator Violetta Grudina, an LGBT activist who was attacked because of her sexual orientation.
I am nobody
6
2017
30 min
A reserve police sergeant from the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" arrives in Moscow to receive a "Volunteer of Donbass" badge as a reward for participating in hostilities in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists.
Here is the cross for you
1
2017
12 min
Near Moscow at the end of April, they stormed the Reichstag (more precisely, its replica) during the reconstruction of the battle in Patriot Park. Hundreds of people in uniform, with weapons and equipment from the Second World War, ran through mud and puddles to a model of the Reichstag lined up near the forest.
Everyone was waiting for the arrival of the Fuehrer
1
2017
15 min
A tattoo artist from Ufa covers the traces of violence with flowers.
Scar Tattoo
1
2017
24 min
Producer Aleksey Pivovarov and director Alexander Rastorguev started working on a documentary film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Norilsk Nickel, moving away from the traditional form and choosing the web-doc genre. As a result, the project team created an interactive website, norilskfilm.com, filled with many short stories, archival materials and virtual panoramas.
Norilsk in the first person
6
2015
42 min
Since May 2012, for almost two years, directors Alexei Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev, and with them the best young documentary filmmakers have been following the most current events in Russia and posting short videos on the Internet almost every day. "Term" became an alternative to openly propaganda television reports and an experiment in the format of "documentary news", when the authors tried to see its living, human side in every significant event.
Term
8
2014
83 min
Irina Gora, without a roof over her head, at the age of 39 inadvertently gave birth to her friend's son. Vanka turned out to be smart. We have been observing him, eight years old, from the moment of his birth. A kaleidoscope of events: a zoo, marmons, a city bath. But everything in the life of mother and son turned Vanya's letter to Putin.
Kids and mothers
9
2007
92 min
According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."
Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach. Full version
10
2005
340 min
According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."
Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach
10
2005
175 min
Competition for the post of personal secretary.
Contract
1
2004
52 min
Not far from Grozny, an old steam locomotive with several wagons attached to it stands on a siding. The locomotive provides steam, hot water in the boilers, and a bathhouse is equipped in the cars, where soldiers and officers wash and wash their linen. A washing station on wheels is both a soldier's bivouac, and a piece of peaceful life, and the beginning of a new road.
Maundy Thursday
10
2003
46 min
Yulia is sixteen, she lives in a barracks. And Vanya is with his parents in a five-story building. Julia is expecting a baby, and Vanya's parents are against the misalliance and do not let the couple on the doorstep. "A monstrously real movie about love," as the director himself defines "Mommies." It can be said that this film inherits the Russian literary "natural school", the whole "physiology of Russian life" is presented in such detail in it. But you can also interpret it as a terrible fairy tale, because it is all a metaphor for Russian life.
Little Mothers
10
2001
46 min
Gora is a frail middle-aged woman who works as a janitor in one of the sleeping areas of Rostov-on-Don. She has neither a residence permit nor a medical policy, and in order to somehow save money, she lives with a friend in a barracks for 500 rubles. The two-storey densely populated hut survived only because it stood in the landfill for its entire history. People have been living here for more than forty years. They grow geese and goats in summer kitchens, boil themselves, drink, love, die. A nunnery is located a hundred meters from the barracks. There are 15 girls of all ages in it, in essence, this is the same barrack, only completely whitewashed and surrounded by a brick fence. They say the abbess is a former prison guard. Passion is no worse than in the cool Mexican series.
Gora
8
2001
56 min